{"id":17925,"date":"2023-05-10T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/?p=17925"},"modified":"2023-05-10T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:23:18","slug":"prssa-field-trip-to-wlos-in-asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/prssa-field-trip-to-wlos-in-asheville\/","title":{"rendered":"PRSSA Field Trip to WLOS in Asheville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The PRSSA chapter at WCU took a field trip at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29 to WLOS ABC News Station in Asheville.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PRSSA, or Public Relations Student Society of America, is a student organization dedicated to supporting young PR professionals to succeed in developing a network during school to help them secure jobs later in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The purpose of the field trip was for Communication majors to see first-hand activity within a news station and see the atmosphere of working in a station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe took a tour around the entirety of the station and got to see everything from the journalists picking up story call-ins to stepping foot in the studio floor where live news is broadcasted,\u201d\u00a0 said Hayden Huffman, PRSSA president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students also got to see server rooms, editing bays, and green screens under supervision of the tour guide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy biggest takeaway from the trip is that a news station is a living and breathing machine that operates as consistently as the people working within it. People working within a news station are talented and dedicated to making sure the news is factual and relevant,\u201d said Huffman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next up for PRSSA are getting ready for elections for the fall semester and working on logistics to attend ICON 2023, which is a national conference for PRSSA organizations. If you are interested in running for an office position or joining PRSSA, contact Hayden Huffman at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:hrhuffman1@catamount.wcu.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hrhuffman1@catamount.wcu.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about upcoming events for PRSSA, follow them on instagram @wcuprssa_1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PRSSA chapter at WCU took a field trip at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29 to WLOS ABC News Station in Asheville.\u00a0 PRSSA, or Public Relations Student Society of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3345,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[329,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17926,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions\/17926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}