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Guest Speaker: Maya Jackson I forgot to mention  in my earlier blog that we had a second guest speaker in Intro to Mass Comm. Her name was Maya Jackson and she was an alumni of our North Carolina Central University. When Jackson began speaking I thought I would have a hard time relating to her. While we both had a hard time deciding what careers we wanted her reasons were vastly different from mine. I had no interest but she had too many interests. Maya Jackson was part of almost everything in high school. She was part of the school band, a member of various clubs, and state champion in track and field. As a student athlete she got to attend NC A&T and UNC Wilmington on scholarships. The majors Jackson took up included Political Science and Afro-American studies. She described herself as getting "bored" with those and even dropping out of school at one point. However, she would later attend NCCU and establish the school's first Hip-Hop initiative. Jackson would late

Guest Speaker: Pam Saulsby Today in Intro to Mass Comm, Emmy award winning journalist Pam Saulsby, came to our class to discuss her career and offer advice to the students about the field of Broadcast Journalism. Saulsby has spent thirty years on television as a news anchor. Out of those thirty years, twenty of them were spent in Raleigh, North Carolina for WRAL-TV.  After spending so much time in that field of work, Saulsby would fall into the routine of adhering to schedules and appointments. This led to the first lesson she taught the class: Time is everything. From the amount spent in the make up room to the amount that goes in the story; time management means everything in broadcast journalism. I felt this was the most important lesson she taught the class but what really stood out was her story about the golf tournament. Saulsby's news station was getting ready for a golf tournament and they three employees to represent them. The news station would select three white