Rhode to a Degree<\/h1>
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Original Life Goal<\/h4>\n
Personal trainer in sports medicine.<\/p>\n
Revised Life Goal<\/h4>\n
Multimedia journalist, because \u201cdemocracy cannot function without people being informed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Welcome-to-College Moment<\/h4>\n
Journalism professor John Pantalone seats 317 students in alphabetical order so he knows who shows and who skips.<\/p>\n
Key Turning Point<\/h4>\n
Kendall Moore\u2019s multimedia journalism class \u201cwas the reason I became a TV journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mentors<\/h4>\n
Journalism professors John Pantalone and Kendall Moore. Pantalone \u201cnever shut the door on me, even though I had constant questions.\u201d Moore was \u201ca mentor, friend, colleague; you name it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scholarships<\/h4>\n
Harrington Scholarship, Violet Grace Hellman Endowed Prize in Languages, Erica Knowles Memorial Endowment, Mary Jane Behrends Clark Journalism Scholarship<\/p>\n
Internships<\/h4>\n
WTNH-ABC 8 (Conn.), WJAR-NBC 10 (R.I.), Rhode Island Monthly, and more. \u201c溏心vlog免费B站 and the Harrington School have good reputations, which helped me land those internships.\u201d<\/p>\n
Landing the Internship<\/h4>\n
Meeting Josh Aromin \u201912 from Rhode Island Monthly at 溏心vlog免费B站 Journalism Day and following up via Twitter.<\/p>\n
Leadership Outside the Classroom<\/h4>\n
Standards chair for Sigma Delta Tau sorority, in charge of ensuring ethical conduct of the sisters.<\/p>\n
Degree<\/h4>\n
B.A. \u201916, Spanish and journalism, minor in nutrition<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n
When an estranged husband<\/span> went on a shooting spree and barricaded himself in an apartment, Allie Herrera \u201916 raced to the scene as the local CBS reporter. Less than a year after finishing her journalism degree, Herrera earned her stripes that day\u2014interviewing, writing, and delivering the story live.<\/p>\n In an era of digital media, instant gratification, and shrinking newsroom budgets, journalism has been transformed. \u201cYou\u2019re a jack-of-all-trades. You\u2019re a Swiss Army knife,\u201d says Herrera, now at the NBC affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee. \u201cI can\u2019t explain how exciting it is to get the story\u2014to get the A slot for the broadcast and have a live shot. It\u2019s an adrenaline rush unlike anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Herrera embodies the 21st century reporter: undertaking\u2014solo\u2014a job that, just a decade ago, fell to a team that included a writer, photographer, webmaster, and producer. It\u2019s 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 \u201973 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.<\/p>\n It was in the school\u2019s lab that Herrera learned to edit footage she shot with the school\u2019s cameras. She teamed up with journalism student Marissa Tansino \u201917 to turn the mock TV studio into a broadcasting center streaming campus news via the internet. She mingled with the school\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the Harrington School had not made that equipment available, those resources available, I would not have been as prepared to enter my career,\u201d she says. \u201cIt prepared students for what we would see in the outside world.\u201d<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also where faculty converge to teach, mentor, and conduct research. Herrera credits two in particular\u2014journalism professors Kendall Moore and John Pantalone\u2014with helping her transition from being an aspiring kinesiology major to graduating as a journalism major. \u201cThey taught me to be curious,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n And when she graduated, she became just the second person in her family to do so, behind her sister. 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