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Photo of the Day: Students dive into media production on RMBC

Samantha Wu, News Editor|January 7, 2022

Media Services technician, Eric Rodney, guides a journalism class behind the scenes of RM’s student show, RMBC. The recording studio features professional teleprompters, cameras, and editing equipment, but has recently faced difficulties in attracting enough students to fill all of the crew and talent positions necessary to run the show. “The main purpose [of this class] is basically to get the kids who are in RMBC used to what is truly a professional studio environment, and disseminate information to the student population,” Mr. Rodney said.

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