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Westborough TV expands hands-on partnership with WHS journalism; requests town support as cable revenues fall
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Westborough TV and Westborough High School presented a year-two partnership that places students in newsroom-style classes and studio work at the town public-access station; Westborough TV said cable-derived revenues have declined and it will seek town funding to close an approximate $180,000 shortfall.
Westborough School Committee members heard a presentation Tuesday on a growing collaboration between Westborough TV and Westborough High School that places students in broadcast journalism classes and gives them hands-on access to professional equipment and studio space.
The partnership has moved broadcast journalism into the high school fine arts program after Massachusetts curriculum frameworks reclassified broadcast journalism as media arts, Christopher Martin, Westborough Schools director of fine arts, said. Students in journalism 1 learn writing and basics; journalism 2 and advanced journalism produce weekly or biweekly broadcast packages at Westborough TV’s Studio 33.
"The students get a lot of good stuff from us here in terms of the writing side of things,…
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