By Katelyn Aluise, The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Students in Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications are organizing a 24-hour broadcast for Election Day on Nov. 5 with other students from across the country.
The first hour of the broadcast will be anchored by two editors of The Parthenon student newspaper, Sarah Davis and Evan Green, and will move onto a list of other participating colleges and high schools from there.
Online, Marshall students will continue managing the broadcast feed, as well as written reports, photographs and other live digital content through studentnewslive.com, founded by W. Page Pitt Director Robert Quicke and Nick Hirshon, associate professor at William Patterson University in New Jersey.
“I originally came up with the idea for this … earlier this year, when I thought about the election, and I just observed a general sort of lack of interest or a lack of excitement from students who felt maybe perhaps disenfranchised by, at that time, the two major political candidates running,” Quicke said.
“I did think to myself, ‘Why are we not paying more attention to what the students of that generation have to say?’ And that’s when I thought, ‘What would be really cool is if students cross country could put together election coverage and we could hear a whole different perspective on this.’”
Because this idea is unprecedented, Quicke said, it was important to include not just students in West Virginia but journalism schools coast to coast to hear what elections are like in their states.
