A&T to Host Broadcast Shortcourse

GREENSBORO - The department of journalism and mass communication at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will host the 11th annual National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Student Broadcast Short Course March 19-22.
The NABJ short course is designed to acquaint African American college students with behind-the-scenes jobs in the broadcast industry. It is aimed at encouraging more African-American journalism students to pursue television management as a career.
The course includes workshops, assignments, newsroom operations, newscast taping and editing.

Mike Woolfolk, anchor and managing editor of WACH FOX News at Ten, will be the keynote speaker at the NABJ Broadcast Short Course’s anniversary banquet. The banquet will be held 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 22, in the Memorial Union-Stallings Ballroom. Tickets are $15 ($10 for students).
A native of Detroit, Mich., Woolfolk attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., for two years and finished his college education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., earning a B.A. degree in broadcasting.

His professional television career began while he was still in school at Southern. He began working for WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge as weekend news producer/assignment editor in 1987. He later became sports reporter/anchor followed by news reporter/substitute anchor before leaving the station in 1989.

He moved to Las Vegas, Nev. where he worked as weekend sports anchor/reporter for KVBC-TV. From 1989 to 1991, he covered a variety of high profile sports stories including the NCAA Basketball Championships, major boxing matches including championships involving Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard and others.

In 1991, Woolfolk moved to Jackson, Miss., where he worked as a weekday sports anchor for Mississippi News Tonight, but later returned to the news department as an anchor/reporter. He later worked for WAPT-TV, where he anchored the morning news and later the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. In 1996, he moved to Columbia, S.C. and joined the staff of WACH-TV to become the first anchor of WACH FOX News at Ten.

A&T students participating in the short course include Danya Bacchus, Emily Bailey, Robert Bodison, Antoniette Brown, Jennifer Carter, Erica Coleman, Eboni Davis, Karen Fairey, Jamie Galloway, Tim Jennings, Miatta Johnson, Saida Malik, LaDonna Martin, Chad McKelvey, Marvin Morrison, Joia Nunn, Kevette Peterson, Brad Taylor and Kipling Wilson.

Visiting students include Brandon Blue, Western Illinois University; Marisa Davis, Clark Atlanta University; Gerard Farrow, North Carolina Central University; Tandeace Gillette, Temple University; Kristen Harris, Norfolk State University; Crystal Henderson, Bennett

College; Renee Jackson, UNC Chapel Hill; Robin May, Bennett College; Troy Prestwood, Howard University; Jeffrey Roulston, Oakwood College; Janelle Stiell, Howard University; Michael Tolbert, New York University; Erica Toliver, American University; Danielle Wagner, Kent State University; and Darryel Washington, St. Augustine’s College.

NABJ professionals participating in the short course will include Ted Holtzelaw, WABC-TV, New York.; Steven Reynolds, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C..; Anthony Wilson, WTVD-TV, Durham; Michael Woolfolk, WACH-TV, Columbia, S.C.; Lawrence Coleman, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C., Sharon Stevens, KSDK-TV, St Louis, Mo.; Johnny Green, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C.; Phillip Kraft, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C.; Leon Moore, WAGT-TV, Augusta, Ga.; Hank Price, WXII-TV, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Fred Shropshire, WXII-TV, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Valerie Roberts, WSMH, Flint, Mich.; and Heather Abraham, WAGT-TV, Augusta, Ga.

For banquet tickets, call Nagatha Tonkins at (336) 334-7221.