It’s not every day you get to meet a TV personality, but that’s exactly what the students at Marymound School’s media course did on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

Waubgeshig Rice, a reporter on CBC’s News at Six program visited classes at the school to provide fascinating insight into the world of TV news.

Waub is Ojibwa, originally from Wausaksing First Nation, Ontario. He received his Bachelor of Journalism at Ryerson University.

He explained about the amount of preparation that goes into a two-minute story: it takes him all day to get ready, doing interviews, travelling to different locations to shoot footage, researching background information and editing the story down to the right length, etc. He even brought some CDs of past shows, with humorous outtakes. He also took a look at some of the videos Marymound students have made this year.

Students had plenty of questions, and especially enjoyed staging scenes with their teacher and then having Waub give them a live interview about what happened. It was very realistic and really made an impact. Our thanks go to Waubgeshig Rice for taking a day off work to share his expertise with our students!