The Oswegonian 10/29/21

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Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 VOLUME LXXXXVI ISSUE VII SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com

Students attend career networking event The career connector event hosted six college alumnus Annika Wickham Chief Copy Editor awickham@oswegonian.com SUNY Oswego hosted a career connector networking event on Oct. 27 as part of the 2021 Dr. Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit in the Tyler Hall lobby. The event featured six career connectors, who are recent SUNY Oswego alumni within the past 10 years, and now work in the media industry. Gab Candela is the career connectors coordinator for the event and said that having graduates from the past few years allows them to give better advice to students. “A lot of them are recent graduates, like a couple years out, which I think is really good because they can relate more to being a college student as it wasn’t that long ago,” Candela

said. “They are really involved in Oswego and in their careers so I think we are getting the best of both worlds and students are really taking advantage of it.” After the Media Summit panel students were able to ask questions and network with the connectors from 4:30 to 6 p.m. They also offered advice from their time at SUNY Oswego and on how to get jobs in the media field. Kalie Dobrow, class of 2016, is a senior social media strategist and said her advice to students is to be open to change and to be adaptive because, in her career, you are at the mercy of updates from social media companies. She also said that the media industry is constantly evolving, as her job did not even exist when she graduated. Another career connector Matt Stone, class of 2015, agreed

and also said students should keep in mind their personal lives when planning out their career. “Life moves quick,” Stone said. “Two or three years ago I was very focused on work but then personal life plays such a big factor as you grow your career. I didn’t even think about that at the beginning and now I’m getting married next year, it’s totally different … Your personal life and personal relationships end up playing a factor in your career.” Stone is a segment producer for Good Morning America and focuses on finding and booking guests for interviews. He also said that the field is constantly changing, partially because of COVID-19 and how it impacts in-person work.

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The career connector event after the Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit serves as a way for media students to talk to professionals.

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Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit returns to campus

William Rogers | The Oswegonian The Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit returned to a hybrid model after being virtual in 2020.

Brandon Ladd Editor-in-Chief bladd@oswegonian.com The Lewis B. O’Donnell media summit returned to campus on Oct. 27 after being virtual last year due to COVID-19. Waterman Theatre in Tyler Hall was turned into a red carpet entrance in the lobby of the building and the backdrop for the usual panel of media experts to discuss this year’s theme. The theme was “On-Demand In Demand: Audiences and the Future of Video Streaming,” featuring the panel of Renard Jenkins, Jamie Duemo, Chrissy Guest and Frank Palumbo. Palumbo, a 1983 graduate of SUNY Oswego was the only alumni on the panel. Jenkins is the vice president of content transmission and production technology for Warner Media. Duomo is a Media and Entertainment Business Development Leader for Amazon Web Service. Guest is currently an Associate Professor of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies at Ithaca College. While Palumbo is Vice President of Local Television for Nielsen. The panel discussed the hybrid model of working in the media industry going forward and this was on full display

as Palumbo and Jenkins both contributed to the panel from a Zoom link. Both, several hundreds of miles away from SUNY Oswego. Vastly different from the usual fully in-person event that was seen from 2005 until 2019 before the pandemic. SUNY Oswego student Abigail Czerwonka was the event director and introduced the event from a podium on stage. Czerwonka expressed thanks to the SUNY Oswego School of Communications, Media and the Arts in her remarks for allowing the event to be possible. She also thanked SUNY Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley before welcoming Stanley to the stage. Stanley introduced the panelists and also remarked on the need for television in each person’s life over the recent tough times as a form of comfort. “For decades television has comforted us,” Stanley said. “I know that during hard times it has served as an escape from life’s challenges. Giving us a chance to laugh, a chance to relate, a chance to be transported to a different time or a different place. A different reality. And how much have we needed that over the course of the past 19 months.”

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