Woodstock High School Journalism class takes field trip to CJ 104 radio station and Bugle-Observer office

Woodstock High School's Journalism 120 class took a field trip to the local radio station and newspaper office this afternoon.

Stiles, along with student teacher Jason Wilson, accompanied a class of approximately twenty students to the CJ 104 studio and the Bugle-Observer office for a tour. Angela Ferguson, CJ 104's news director, toured the class around the studio and introduced the class to the staff members and announcers Tim Durling,  Terry Mann and Rick McGuire, who also serves as the station's manager. Ferguson also showed the class her news studio. She allowed The Shiretown Blogger to record a brief news clip as well, which was an interesting experience.

Tim Durling, left, and Angela Ferguson

Terry Mann

Terry Mann and Angela Ferguson

 Students Dallas Tomah, left, and Emma Smith listening to Terry Mann.

 Woodstock's radio station was known as "CJCJ" upon its establishment in 1959. It became "EZ Rock 104 FM" in the 1990s, and was renamed "CJ 104" around 2009.

Angela Ferguson preparing The Shiretown Blogger (Nathan DeLong) to announce a sample newscast.

The class then walked from the CJ 104 studio across Carleton Street to the Bugle-Observer office, where newspaper editor Jim Dumville showed the class a newspaper layout (we got a sneak peek of tomorrow's issue of the Bugle-Observer), and introduced the class to reporter Doug Dickinson. Dumville also showed the class the new and improved Bugle-Observer website, scheduled for launch next week. He even introduced the class to reporter Bryan Tait.

Bugle-Observer Managing Editor Jim Dumville

Reporter Doug Dickinson

Jim Dumville explaining the layout of the Friday, December 2, 2011 issue of the Bugle-Observer.

Jim Dumville explaining the upgraded website for the Bugle-Observer and other newspapers owned by the Irving-owned firm Brunswick News Inc.

The trip was an interesting and informative one. It was a pleasure meeting the CJ 104 staff and the Bugle-Observer crew, and I personally learned a lot about work in journalism in two different settings. The Shiretown Blogger would like to thank Angela Ferguson, Tim Durling, Terry Mann, Jim Dumville, Doug Dickinson, and Bryan Tait.