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By
Angelique McKowan and Jessica Coomes
Julie Bercik used to watch the news on TV with her grandfather
when she was little.
"I can see you doing that someday," he'd tell her,
pointing to the anchors. So when Bercik auditioned for Kent
State's award-winning news program on TV-2, she dedicated
her audition to him.
And she landed a spot as a weather reporter for Thursday's
5:30 p.m. broadcast.
Bercik, a freshman pre-journalism major, said she heard about
the auditions from assistant professor Evonne Whitmore in
her Introduction to Mass Communication class.
And, she says she did not have high expectations.
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Classmate, and new friend, Megan Grote, auditioned right
before Bercick. A list of students who had been selected was
posted the day after the tryouts, and the two came to check
the postings together.
Grote wasn't chosen.
"I'm just a freshman," the pre-journalism major
said. "I wasn't expecting anything too great." Although
she didn't earn a role as on-air personality, she said she
still wants to find ways to be involved in student media as
either part of the technical crew or as a WKSR DJ.
"I'm gonna go into it and see if I like the different
kinds of careers it offers," she said.
Reporting the weather with a blue screen is going to be hard
to adjust to, Bercik said.
Before the show is aired live, TV-2 has a week of practice
shows. In the Thursday show's first run through this week,
Bercik ran through her weather segment four times.
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Julie Bercik (top photo) gets ready to try out for TV-2.
Her new friend, Megan Grote, sits in the hallway outside
the studio studying her script. Photos by Sarah McCrory. |
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"I'm
sorry I made you guys go through so many takes," Bercik
told Thursday's producer Chandra Phillips after the show.
"No, that's what this week is for,"
Phillips reassured her.
Bercik, who has always wanted to be on the news, said she
wasn't nervous during the auditions. "To be honest, I
don't get nervous," she said.
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