Kristen Pillitteri of New City, N.Y. participates in Television News Institute at Quinnipiac University

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Kristen Pillitteri

HAMDEN, CT (07/29/2010)(readMedia)-- Kristen Pillitteri of New City, N.Y. participated in the Television News Institute held July 12-16 in the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center at Quinnipiac University.

Instructed by news and sports anchors from three of Connecticut's network affiliates, 13 high school juniors and seniors spent the week developing news, entertainment and sports stories needed for a 30-minute newscast. The institute's instructors included: Sonia Baghdady, anchor of WTNH-TV, Channel 8; Rich Coppola, sports director of WTIC-TV, Channel 61; Lauren Petty, weekend anchor and reporter for WVIT-TV, NBC 30; and Kenn Venit, a former broadcast journalist who teaches at Quinnipiac.

The students spent the week in the high definition television studio in the Ed McMahon Center, learning how to come up with story ideas and develop them into quality news packages. They also learned how to operate the cameras, prompters, audio mixers and video switchers, all under the direction of McMahon Center staff.

Each participant received a certificate of completion from the institute and a DVD copy of the news broadcast.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 5,700 full-time undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in 52 undergraduate and 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac ranks among the top 10 universities with master's programs in the Northern region in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges. The 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the North. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's The Best 371 Colleges. For more information, please visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.