Texas State Global
News Team is heading to Guyana in 2018
By Stephen Spencer
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| Lecturer Holly Wise at Global News Team news conference |
SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State Global News Team will
travel with the respiratory care students on a study abroad trip to Guyana in
January 2018.
In a news conference held earlier this week, Texas State
lecturer and founder of the Global News Team, Holly Wise, announced that the
team will be headed to Guyana for their 2018 study abroad trip. They will be
traveling alongside the Texas State department of respiratory care students
from Jan. 2-13.
The Global News Team, comprised of students from the school
of journalism and mass communication, will be doing intensive coverage over the
course of 11 days in Guyana. Wise has already selected five students to embark with
her on the expedition next year.
To get a better sense of what the Global News Team exactly
is and what they strive to do, Wise held a press conference. The Global News
Team study abroad trip is a service learning trip, which makes this trip a
little different from ordinary study abroad trips.
“The students of the Global News Team embed with service
learning trips from Texas State, specifically to tell the stories of the
communities that are being served as well as the students and faculty who are
volunteering,” Wise said.
Since this is a service learning trip, you will be doing a
lot of work within the local communities. The work that the Global News Team has
done in the past while in Nicaragua ranged from taking notes to doing
interviews with local doctors and nursing students.
“My students, my team are running around taking photos and
videos, interviewing patients, nursing students working with local doctors,
interviewing them as well as their teams,” Wise said.
These are a few things you can expect if you are thinking
about joining the Global News Team in the future. Wise encourages anyone from
the school of journalism and mass communication to join. However, there are a
few requirements which include vaccinations and courses that need to be taken
prior.
“The two classes you would enroll in would be Feature
Writing and Multimedia Journalism. One thing I do ask is that you have some
experience in news production, whether that be electronic media or PR or news
writing,” Wise said.
Wise shared what she hopes students gain from these service
learning trips and how they can be beneficial to the aspiring journalists.
“One thing that I’m hoping for all my students is that they
gain a global perspective of their work.” “And then I’m also hoping that my
students walk away with greater skill sets in interviewing people, knowing how
to have conversations with people who are different from them, learning how to
gather news content,” Wise said.
To learn more about The Global News Team visit https://txstglobalnews.wordpress.com.
For further information regarding the study abroad trip email Holly Wise at
hlw24@txstate.edu.
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