Centre County Report Webcast 10-3-13
In this edition of the Centre County Report Webcast, we discuss the United States government shutdown, shooting at the Capitol Building, and more of the latest news surrounding Centre County.
About the Contributors
Alex Eliasof
Senior / Broadcast Journalism
Alex is a senior broadcast journalism major from Verona, New Jersey.
Here at Penn State he is a news director at ComRadio and is a part of the Centre County Report staff. In addition to being a news director, on ComRadio he also works on the sports staff. Alex has called play-by-play for baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball (ranging from high school, to Penn State athletics to minor league baseball). Alex co-hosts “Shooting the Breeze,” an hour-long show that brings the latest in news, entertainment and sports at Penn State and across the world.
Prior to Centre County Report, Alex also worked on the PSNtv staff. For PSNtv he was a news anchor for PSN News Live. He was also a reporter and panelist for “Penn State Sports Night,” the station’s biweekly sports show.
Alex has worked with a variety of stations and teams. During Summer 2013 he was an internet broadcaster for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. In Spring 2013 he completed an internship with the sports branch of WPSU, a PBS affiliate station in State College. In Summer 2012 he was a media intern for the Newark Bears minor league baseball team.
Outside of the College of Comm, Alex also partakes in THON.
Twitter: @alexeliasof
http://www.alexeliasof.com
Artyom Kneuer
Senior / Telecommunications
Artyom has been a part of ComRadio for two years, beginning his first semester at Penn State University. In addition to duties with ComRadio which include his weekly radio show, various beat writes, board ops, and production duties, he is an intern with gopsusports.com. At his internship, he is learning how to put video highlight packages together, how to be a technical director for a sports broadcast, and how to use a professional camera on the sidelines of a sporting event. He aspires to work behind the camera and focus on the little things that makes a broadcast work, such as production, as opposed to being directly in front of the camera.
Patrick Woo
Senior / Journalism
Patrick Woo is a senior from Crumpton, Maryland enrolled in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism.
He is a Sports Director for ComRadio, reporter for the Centre County Report and manager for the Penn State women’s lacrosse team. He has interned with Bill King on Sirius/XM College Sports Nation and the Reese’s Senior Bowl and covered SEC, Big Ten and MAC Media Days, the NFL Draft and Super Bowl XLVIII among many other things at Penn State.
His biggest passions are college football and helping others by making a positive impact.
You can visit Patrick’s personal website at http://www.patrickwoo.com and follow him on Twitter @P_Woo.
Eric DeBerardinis
Junior / Broadcast Journalism
Eric DeBerardinis is a senior majoring in broadcast journalism and minoring in business. Eric both anchors and reports for the Centre County Report. He has been a member of ComRadio for four years, and is also a part of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism.
Eric is interested in all forms of media. He aims to land a job within the sports industry, but is also interested in news and entertainment. Ideally, he would work in the Philadelphia market as a TV or radio host covering his favorite teams.
Previously, Eric has interned with 94.7 WDSD, TheFanHub.com, PHL17, Ryan Seacrest’s The Voice Foundation, B94.5 and CBS3-Philadelphia.
Christian Heilman
Senior / Broadcast Journalism and Management Information Systems
As a senior at Penn State, I’ve hosted and anchored more than ten hours of live television, including newscasts, roundtable discussions and webcasts for the nation’s largest homecoming parade and largest student-run philanthropy in the world. The reporter in me lives for writing, shooting and editing my own stories with a definite soft spot for human interest stories and features.
On top of my journalism major, I am also a dual major in management information systems with a graduation date of May 2014. I then plan on entering the journalism field as an on-air reporter.
Follow me on Twitter: @cgheilman
Molly Cochran
Senior /
Molly is a senior at the Penn State University graduating in December 2013. She is a reporter and Thursday night weathercaster for the Centre County Report. Molly has interned with AccuWeather Inc. and WJAC-tv in Johnstown, Pa. She aspires to be an on air meteorologist and reporter.
Cristina Recino
Senior / Broadcast Journalism
Cristina Recino is a senior at the Pennsylvania State University. She will graduate in May of 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Sociology. This fall she will join Centre County Report, a weekly live news program produced by Penn State students and faculty.
Cristina has immersed herself in the entertainment world of journalism and has continued to grow as a storyteller through her various courses, extracurricular clubs and activities and internship experiences.
This summer Cristina interned with Vh1.com with their digital production team. She was also one of 100 summer interns chosen from 1,300 applicants for a selective professional development program with the T.Howard Foundation. She hopes to one day become an entertainment news reporter for a major entertainment network.
