CNN Talent Coach Lenny Bourin has been called a Svengali by senior management in the news business for his abilities to help anchors and reporters be their best on camera. His techniques were on full display last Wednesday when he came to visit Professor Sissel McCarthy’s Studio News Production class. Bourin told students sitting in the anchor chair for the first time to think of themselves as pilots. “You’re the voice from the cockpit… and the most important thing is to be authoritative and conversational at the same time,” said Bourin, an award winning journalist who spent most of his career as a producer at ABC News.

Prof. Ricardo Miranda will be a film juror at the Big Muddy Film Festival and will be doing a visiting artist talk at the Southern Illinois University, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts.

Students in Professor Sissel McCarthy’s Studio News Production class are getting ready for the third season of Hunter News Now, a biweekly newscast that focuses on the Hunter College community. Students will produce and anchor the 20 minute show that covers campus news as well as the arts and Hunter athletics. Chief CLT Renato Tonelli came to class last week to give students a quick lesson on their high definition cameras while Chief Digital Media CLT and Production Coordinator Peter Jackson introduced his tech-terns who will run the studio and control room. Studio news production students are already out and about on campus working on their first stories and looking for people to interview for our “Hunter Students Speak” series, so feel free to share your opinion and tune in for our first show on Wednesday, March 6th on the Hunter College Journalism YouTube channel.