What is Denizen’s House?

I love being a broadcast communications major. I love interacting with people, telling stories, and love the minimal number of tests given. But one thing I truly dislike is news. Following my time as a radio news producer, and chugging away numerous hours of my life into Adobe Premiere for television news, I have learned to fear the newsroom.
Despite this developed dread of police reports, deadline phone calls, and lost e-mails however, I believe I have gained incredibly valuable skills. These are skills that will transfer over into any job, in any field of work.
As part of my senior culmination class, also known as capstone, I have decided to dive into this subject of skill transferability. I will be interviewing various broadcast majors who have landed jobs in fields outside of the broadcasting bubble. I will then ask the interviewee questions about what broadcasting skills have specifically helped them in their new field of work.
Hopefully from this process I will gain a little better insight into where my broadcast skills could possibly take me in the professional world.
As for the title of this blog (in case you were wondering) the word denizen has many definitions, but the one I am most familiar with is “anything adapted to a new place or condition, as an animal or plant not indigenous to a place but successfully naturalized.” So in simple terms, a denizen is a creature that has learned to adapt to its environment. This is exactly how I see broadcast major who have adapted to their own non-broadcasting environments.
So here in short bulleted form is my main mission, and the format of this blog.



Mission: Discover the transferable skills I’ve learned throughout my time as a broadcast major in order to apply them toward various different fields of work, specifically outside of the news world.

Format: Conduct a weekly audio-based interview segment (2-3 minutes in length) with a former broadcast major who currently works outside of the broadcast field. An additional interview analysis/summary would accompany this audio roughly about 300-400 words in length.