During my time at Meet the Press NOW, the 4 p.m. daily politics show on NBC New NOW, I have had wide-ranging duties from editing video to producing reporter, guest and panel segments to stepping in as a line producer. Here is a sampling of segments I have produced:
The panel segment is a Meet the Press staple. I produced this panel focused on President Biden’s desire to get back into the world of politics and voters’ opinions of the Democratic party.
As the politics destination on NBC News NOW, Meet the Press NOW has been closely following every breaking development in the Trump administration’s policies. This is a reporter segment I produced early in the administration amid tumult over the federal employee buyout program.
In another moment of breaking news, I produced this interview with former Education Secretary John King Jr., which followed live coverage of President Trump announcing his intent to dismantle the Department of Education.
I have also been charged with the Meet the Press Minute segment, which relates news-of-day topics to history through a glimpse into the vast Meet the Press archive. I maintain a log of potentially relevant historical soundbites and bites we have used on our show in the past, and regularly pitch potential historical sound to use. Here is a look at a couple of these segments:
As a production assistant for Morning News NOW, the 7-11 a.m. show on NBC News NOW, I primarily worked on cutting voice over videos and soundbites. Editing these clips can be as simple as stringing several stills together and adding motion, or as complex as layering graphics and blurring out faces in motion.
In addition to my video editing duties, I wrote anchor intros and brief segments. The Good Talker is a daily segment on the show in which the anchors talk about a fun or interesting topic outside our usual coverage. Segments I’ve pitched and written have included Disney’s neighborhood development project in California, Uber sharing score data with passengers and a company developing emoji-based URLs. Two examples of these talkers can be found below.
In the last four weeks of my broadcast course at Columbia, the members of my class produced an approximately 20-minute weekly news show. Across the four shows, I served once as a show producer and an associate producer, and and twice as an on-air reporter.
As show producer for the final episode, I was charged with directing the creative vision and structure of the show, assigning packages to reporting teams and guiding their coverage, and ensuring production was moving on schedule. Shifting quickly as breaking news hit, the episode covers former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation, the passage of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill through the Senate and a former White House counterterrorism official’s analysis on the situation in Afghanistan. You can watch the full 23-minute show on the class Medium page here.
This deep dive story began as a shorter piece on safety concerns community members had raised about electric bikes following a number of publicized deaths and injuries related to the vehicles. But after connecting with a number of advocates, I discovered that one major group of e-bike users, delivery workers, face pressure from their employers to ride ever faster, even if that means breaking traffic laws. While the reporting and shooting duties were shared with a partner, the writing and editing work in this video is my own.
This piece, featured on the Columbia News Service website, was produced for the first episode of CJS News. Covering the effect New York City Restaurant Week was expected to have on the city’s restaurants, the piece highlights two local businesses hoping to get a boost in profits after a slow pandemic year. I conducted all interviews and wrote the script for this piece, and shared reporting and shooting duties.
Madeline Charbonneau 