‘Inside Franklin’ ready to make comeback
Students will soon have a new way to catch up on campus news thanks to the renewed idea of bringing back a news program called “Inside Franklin.”
Broadcast professor Joel Cramer said “Inside Franklin” will be a video magazine instead of a television show like it had been in the past.
It will be available for viewing on YouTube and links will be posted on
TheFranklinOnline.com. The first episode will be available on YouTube by the end of the semester.
“As I envision it, it will be a video magazine with stories done by students from Franklin College,” Cramer said.
The newscast will cover just campus events and sports but those involved hope to branch out and cover events in the community in the future.
“As of now, the newscast is mostly about life here on the campus. It could feature sports and events that take place at Franklin College. I would like to see it expanded beyond that into our community so students and faculty can see what’s going on outside of campus. So we are really hoping to expand beyond the borders of our campus,” Cramer said.
Student journalist and active reporter for “Inside Franklin” Amy Fox agrees with the expansion of the program. She is one of the students helping to revive it. She approached
Cramer earlier in the year and proposed bringing it back.
“They had ‘Inside Franklin’ about four or five years ago,” Fox said. “When I approached Professor Cramer about getting it started, he said that money wasn’t an option, and if a student took the initiative we could get it started. Eventually it was made part of my JOU 336 (Television Production and On-Air Performance) class.”
Fox said that it will be up to the students involved now to keep it going next year. She said next year they are going to begin recruiting new reporters. There will be a booth set up at the student activity fair that shows clips from the shows and they will hang up fliers.
Another way they will promote through the journalism classes.
Fox also said she hopes that in the future the newscasts will be weekly instead of bi-weekly. Freshmen Michael Garfield is hopeful for the program.
“I think it will be cool as a start, but I wish they would make it into a TV show. I would love to watch it while sitting in [Sodexo]. I also think it will be cool to watch what is happening around campus,” Garfield said. “I will be watching.”
