Photo By Staff Sgt. Zachary Mott | Sgt. Monte Swift, left, public affairs specialist with the U.S. Army Reserve’s 207th...... read more read more
DENVER - Soldiers from the Army Reserve’s 207th Public Affairs Detachment spent their day with journalists from the Denver Post and Channel 4 News in an attempt to foster interoperability and to gain a better understanding of how the media runs their operations.
“It was a great opportunity to see how the civilian broadcast media goes about their business,” Staff Sgt. Tony Knouf, a broadcast journalist with the 207th PAD, said. “Their speed and efficiency at turning out a story really impressed me.”
Knouf and half of the 207th shadowed Channel 4 broadcast news teams, while the other half shadowed Denver Post photographers and reporters. The media news teams went out into the field and covered breaking news, feature and sports stories, with the Soldiers in tow.
“We don’t get chances like this very often,” Sgt. Monte Swift, a print journalist with the 207th, said. “I have a background in news writing for a small paper in Iowa, but I’d never seen such a massive news giant like the Post in action.”
Stories covered ranged from body cameras being implemented on police to a rodeo at the Denver Stock Show.
Soldiers were allowed access to morning planning meetings and hardware and software used to create the stories, photos and video we all see everyday in the paper, on television and on the Internet.
“It’s getting behind the scenes; getting a feel for what the civilian side of the media does,” said Sgt. 1st Class Steve Segin, the 207th detachment sergeant said. “It’s about strategic awareness of how they operate and how we interact with them.”
| Date Taken: | 01.09.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 01.20.2016 10:40 |
| Story ID: | 186627 |
| Location: | DENVER, COLORADO, US |
| Web Views: | 39 |
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