{"id":68270,"date":"2004-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-journalism-students-participate-in-mock-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-journalism-students-participate-in-mock-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/12\/uri-journalism-students-participate-in-mock-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 journalism students participate in mock press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — December 8, 2004 — Mike Logee sounded sincere when he said that he was rounding Point Judith Lighthouse and saw the Block Island Ferry almost totally submerged after crashing into a nearby jetty. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe ferry remains safely afloat and Logee isn\u2019t a captain of a local fishing vessel, but he was one of 30 溏心vlog免费B站 students, either studying media writing or public relations, who recently participated in a mock press conference to learn how to respond to crisis situations without getting a sinking feeling.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe press conference was designed by two 溏心vlog免费B站 1995 journalism alumni: Kristen Cyr, editor of The North East Independent, who teaches courses in media writing, and Jim Beardsworth, state director of communications for the American Cancer Society, who teaches courses in public relations. Cyr and Beardsworth were active with the University\u2019s student newspaper, The Good 5 \u00a2 Cigar when they attended 溏心vlog免费B站. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe press conference story line was that the Block Island Ferry with 70 people on board had crashed into a jetty and sank. Fifteen were confirmed dead 10 were missing and 35 were taken to area hospitals.<\/p>\n


\nSome of Beardworth\u2019s students represented state and local officials at the press conference, giving Cyr\u2019s budding journalists a chance to ask questions. Cyr\u2019s students then had to write their stories on \u201cdeadline\u201d and file them with their editor (Cyr) within five hours.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not easy,\u201d noted Valerie Fava after the exercise. A junior from Patterson, N.J. who played a chief petty officer from the U.S. Coast Guard for the public relations-side of the exercise. \u201cYou have to be prepared to answer any kind of question.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLiz Stickel, a student from Cranston, who played the chief of emergency services at South County Hospital, agreed. \u201cAfter I gave out a name I said to myself \u2018Oh, I wasn\u2019t supposed to say that!\u2019 <\/p>\n


\n\tVictor Omoayo, a journalism student from Providence, found the press conference to be good practice. \u201cYou get to know what kind of questions to ask,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe tried to make it as true to life as possible,\u201d says Beardsworth of the exercise. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to create chaos, but wanted to give the students a sense of it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThere\u2019s so much to react to at a press conference,\u201d says Cyr. \u201cReporters have to be able to think on their feet. It\u2019s hard in the beginning. It\u2019s much better to learn the lessons in class than on the job.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — December 8, 2004 — Mike Logee sounded sincere when he said that he was rounding Point Judith Lighthouse and saw the Block Island Ferry almost totally submerged after crashing into a nearby jetty. The ferry remains safely afloat and Logee isn\u2019t a captain of a local fishing vessel, but he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}