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| Photo by Sarah Hutchins |
| Scott Myrick joined the staff in November as multimedia lab director. |
After working for almost two years as a television news anchor reporter, Scott Myrick left his job at a small CBS station in the northeast Georgia mountains and moved to Indiana to work as the journalism school’s new multimedia lab director.
“It seemed like a really good opportunity,” said Myrick, who started his new job Nov. 12. “After I found out about the job, I learned that the position was changing. Traditionally, the lab director was responsible for maintaining the lab, helping people with problems, overseeing equipment checkout and lab assistance. Now, they want me to start doing video productions for the school.”
The Scripps Howard Foundation Digital Imaging Lab, informally called the multimedia lab, is located on the ground floor of Ernie Pyle Hall and houses video and still cameras, audio recorders and lighting kits for students to check out. It also offers computers with multimedia software and provides a staff of student employees who can assist other students in using software and equipment.
“It seemed like a really good opportunity,” said Myrick, who started his new job Nov. 12. “After I found out about the job, I learned that the position was changing. Traditionally, the lab director was responsible for maintaining the lab, helping people with problems, overseeing equipment checkout and lab assistance. Now, they want me to start doing video productions for the school.”
The Scripps Howard Foundation Digital Imaging Lab, informally called the multimedia lab, is located on the ground floor of Ernie Pyle Hall and houses video and still cameras, audio recorders and lighting kits for students to check out. It also offers computers with multimedia software and provides a staff of student employees who can assist other students in using software and equipment.
In addition to fulfilling all of the traditional lab director duties, Myrick said he also will be working on documentaries and video projects for the school and supervising production.
“It’s a chance to get to spend some time doing really good video projects instead of keeping up with day-to-day deadlines for daily news,” he said.
The lab won’t be a strange environment for Myrick, who worked as a mulitmedia lab assistant while an undergraduate at Elon University. He applied his skills to his TV job, where he said he began to fully understand convergence media.
“Coming out of being part of the working media, we hear about convergence and about how newspapers and TV stations are all kind of becoming one, and they really are,” he said. “It’s happening a lot faster than people realize. TV station Web sites are becoming more important and you have to combine so many different skills, really multiple mediums, into those jobs. Knowing how to do everything is really important in journalism these days.”
“It’s a chance to get to spend some time doing really good video projects instead of keeping up with day-to-day deadlines for daily news,” he said.
The lab won’t be a strange environment for Myrick, who worked as a mulitmedia lab assistant while an undergraduate at Elon University. He applied his skills to his TV job, where he said he began to fully understand convergence media.
“Coming out of being part of the working media, we hear about convergence and about how newspapers and TV stations are all kind of becoming one, and they really are,” he said. “It’s happening a lot faster than people realize. TV station Web sites are becoming more important and you have to combine so many different skills, really multiple mediums, into those jobs. Knowing how to do everything is really important in journalism these days.”
While Dean Brad Hamm was not involved in the lab director selection process, he knew of Myrick from their time at Elon, when Myrick was an undergraduate and Hamm was associate dean.
“I heard of him more than I knew him,” Hamm said. “When we were talking about the position, somebody mentioned to me that this guy is a star and that’s what we needed.”
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“I heard of him more than I knew him,” Hamm said. “When we were talking about the position, somebody mentioned to me that this guy is a star and that’s what we needed.”
