In the last couple of semesters, the way Missouri Southern students take in the news has changed.

Broadcast students have recently decided they’d like to produce a weekly, or biweekly news broadcast.

Last semester’s producer, Michael Woodruff, started the project and broadcast weekly. 

Jake Hamilton has continued with the production of MoSo Student News this semester.

“I wanted to take what Michael ‘Woody’ Woodruff did with ‘The Chart Broadcast Edition’ and simply improve the show,” Hamilton said. 

“Not that he wasn’t a great producer, which he was, and not that he didn’t make a good show, which he did. 

“I just wanted to create a new identity for the show, so I wiped the slate clean and started fresh while instilling the same tradition that Woody had.”

MoSo Student News airs every other week and is anchored by Kristen Murphy and Dillon Thompson, Andrew Webb and Jessica Duarte on sports.

The program features campus news, features and other packages and gives students the chance to do it all.

“With the best talent, crew and advisers a student producer could ask for, the sky is the limit with what we can do with the newscast,” Hamilton said.

Although the program is new to KGCS-TV, it has been well-received by its advisers and others within the department, according to Hamilton.

“I am proud of how the group works as a team,” Kristen Livingston, one of the show’s advisers, said. 

“They show improvement with every newscast and they take criticism, both positive and negative, as a lesson learned. As a whole, they are go-getters and this experience will only help them  with future endeavors such as employment opportunities. 

We are very fortunate to have this opportunity for students to work on production and on-air work,” she said.