Students in Pitt's inaugural Broadcast I class worked closely on proper formatting of newscasts and live events from six-time Emmy Award-winning producer Deb Casini-Klein. The Ohio native was executive producer of top-rated talk shows in both Cleveland and Pittsburgh. 

WTAE-TV morning news anchor Michelle Wright joined the students as they worked on a class exercise of research stories, gathering news and writing scripts for a newscasts. The students will implement the scripts they wrote in Wednesday's class, when they are joined at the Pitt Studios anchor desk with four of the most prominent and decorated anchors in Pittsburgh.

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