Broadcast Journalism
Audra Tatum
Flomaton High School
Flomaton, Al.
Sarah Panko could not be called anything less than a one-woman show.
Panko works as a digital journalist covering news and sometimes filling in as anchor at WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Ga. She told high school students attending the AU Summer Journalism Workshop that she has to be on call day and night.
Since it is such a small news station, Panko creates, writes and edits her own story. She is even her own camera man when she is shooting on air. She also might come in really early or stay really late when she fills in for the anchors, and she might even do the weather. Along with all of that, she writes for the online edition of the station too.
Panko says even though it is a very stressful job, it is definitely worth it. She says one of her favorite parts about her job is actually telling the story. “My stories are my babies,” she says. “Everybody has a story and everybody has something unique and interesting about them.”
Panko told the students she grew up in central Illinois where she worked on her own high school newspaper. After high school, she majored in broadcast journalism. She applied for many jobs around the world including a job on a little island right outside Japan. She eventually landed a job at the news station, WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Ga.
She advised the high school students try everything in journalism from print to broadcast. “I want to change the world,” she says, “Everybody reads the news in some form or another.”
Flomaton High School
Flomaton, Al.
Sarah Panko could not be called anything less than a one-woman show.
Panko works as a digital journalist covering news and sometimes filling in as anchor at WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Ga. She told high school students attending the AU Summer Journalism Workshop that she has to be on call day and night.
Since it is such a small news station, Panko creates, writes and edits her own story. She is even her own camera man when she is shooting on air. She also might come in really early or stay really late when she fills in for the anchors, and she might even do the weather. Along with all of that, she writes for the online edition of the station too.
Panko says even though it is a very stressful job, it is definitely worth it. She says one of her favorite parts about her job is actually telling the story. “My stories are my babies,” she says. “Everybody has a story and everybody has something unique and interesting about them.”
Panko told the students she grew up in central Illinois where she worked on her own high school newspaper. After high school, she majored in broadcast journalism. She applied for many jobs around the world including a job on a little island right outside Japan. She eventually landed a job at the news station, WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Ga.
She advised the high school students try everything in journalism from print to broadcast. “I want to change the world,” she says, “Everybody reads the news in some form or another.”