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Allie Herrera 鈥�16

When an estranged husband went on a shooting spree and barricaded himself in an apartment, Allie Herrera 鈥�16 raced to the scene as the local CBS reporter. Less than a year after finishing her journalism degree, Herrera earned her stripes that day鈥攊nterviewing, writing, and delivering the story live.

In an era of digital media, instant gratification, and shrinking newsroom budgets, journalism has been transformed. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a jack-of-all-trades. You鈥檙e a Swiss Army knife,鈥� says Herrera, now at the NBC affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 explain how exciting it is to get the story鈥攖o get the A slot for the broadcast and have a live shot. It鈥檚 an adrenaline rush unlike anything.鈥�

Herrera embodies the 21st century reporter: undertaking鈥攕olo鈥攁 job that, just a decade ago, fell to a team that included a writer, photographer, webmaster, and producer. It鈥檚 the primary reason the 溏心vlog免费B站 formed the Harrington School of Communication and Media in 2008 with a $5 million gift from Richard J. Harrington 鈥�73 and his wife, Jean. The school combines communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations, writing and rhetoric, library and information studies, digital media, and sports media, exposing 1,350 students to a world that no longer operates in silos.

It was in the school鈥檚 lab that Herrera learned to edit footage she shot with the school鈥檚 cameras. She teamed up with journalism student Marissa Tansino 鈥�17 to turn the mock TV studio into a broadcasting center streaming campus news via the internet. She mingled with the school鈥檚 advisory board of industry leaders who served as mentors, friends, and inspiration. Scholarships from the Harrington School and elsewhere helped her balance internships, a teaching assistantship, a job at the Anna Fascitelli Fitness & Wellness Center, and schoolwork.

鈥淚f the Harrington School had not made that equipment available, those resources available, I would not have been as prepared to enter my career,鈥� she says. 鈥淚t prepared students for what we would see in the outside world.鈥�

Those resources will grow with an additional $3 million commitment in June 2018 from the Harringtons. The gift will fund further renovations of Ranger Hall, which already houses the $6.8 million Harrington Hub for Global Leadership in Communication and Media, including a video-editing lab, and active learning classrooms.

It鈥檚 also where faculty converge to teach, mentor, and conduct research. Herrera credits two in particular鈥攋ournalism professors Kendall Moore and John Pantalone鈥攚ith helping her transition from being an aspiring kinesiology major to graduating as a journalism major. 鈥淭hey taught me to be curious,鈥� she says.

And when she graduated, she became just the second person in her family to do so, behind her sister. Born in Peru, Herrera鈥檚 parents moved the family to the United States when she was 5 in search of a better life. 鈥淢y parents still wake up thinking they are in a dream because their daughter is
a journalist on TV,鈥� she says. 鈥�

Chris Barrett