Late Night Patriot: How it began

To me, Late Night Patriot is the culmination of many ideas and efforts.

As I have reiterated many times over in these posts, I am the photo and video editor of Connect2Mason.com, Mason’s student run news website. I’ve been very happy doing what I do, taking photos and video for the site, but I’ve always wanted to do more.

When I learned that we have the ability to livestream, I was excited. I knew that we had the ability to do great things with the capability, but I didn’t know what to do with it.

Steve Buttry came to my online journalism class a few weeks back and spoke to us about the digital future of journalism. What stuck with me was that if you had an idea, run with it and do it to the fullest. It hit me.

Livestreamed. News show.

I ran over to the Office of Student Media, told a few important people my idea and they were hooked.

I started to get the necessary team together, a camera and streaming crew, on camera talent, and the that was that.

I started to formally communicate with the team over Spring Break, talking about show times. Originally, I had the show at 10 a.m., but one of the team noted there is no 10 a.m. news so instead, we moved it to 10 p.m. to reach the college demographic.

Our first show went off without a hitch that Monday and LNP is now going into its third show. Be sure to tune in every Monday night at 10 p.m. for news, a weekly rundown of events on and off campus and Open Session.



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