{"id":3977,"date":"2020-03-01T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2020-03-01T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:47:52","slug":"cnn-talent-coach-prepares-hunter-news-now-students-for-first-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/cnn-talent-coach-prepares-hunter-news-now-students-for-first-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Talent Coach Prepares Hunter News Now Students for First Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"On-air
On-air talent coach Lennart Bourin, right, working with students in Prof. Sissel McCarthy\u2019s studio news class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hunter News Now students honed their anchoring skills last week in preparation for their first newscast on March 11.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On-air talent coach Lennart Bourin told Prof. Sissel McCarthy\u2019s students exactly what he tells the CNN anchors and reporters he now works with: Be yourself and own the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bourin,
Bourin, left, with journalism student Emilia Nygren.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe most important thing is to be authoritative and natural at the same time,\u201d said Bourin, who spent 40 years in the news business as a cameraman, writer, and producer at NBC News, ABC News, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bourin gave the students some exercises to do if they feel nervous at the anchor desk. He suggests loosening up your body by moving your head, neck and shoulders in a circular motion and then warming up your voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDrinking warm water can help loosen your vocal cords \u2014 but stay away from astringents like coffee or tea,\u201d Bourin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students took turns reading a practice script from the teleprompter, and most agreed it is a lot harder than it looks. Bourin nodded knowingly and encouraged them to relax and practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike so many things, you need to do it again and again to become a pro,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunter News Now students honed their anchoring skills last week with on-air talent coach Lennart Bourin in preparation for their first newscast on March 11. Learn what Bourin, a 40-year industry veteran, tells professional anchors and reporters going on air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,14,25],"tags":[62,69],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage_news","category-journalism-program-news","category-student-work","category-television-2","tag-cnn","tag-hunter-news-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}