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Lyndon State College is a Vermont State College located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont in a small town called Lyndonville.

 As a student, you can choose many paths to go down in your college career. However, there is one that stands out from the rest. News 7 is a student run newscast that broadcasts out to the neighboring towns around Lyndonville.

Courtland Hanley, a senior at Lyndon State, works as a reporter for News 7. He is a senior web producer for the News 7 website, Newslinc. This is his first semester as a web producer and enjoys it very much.

Hanley works with three other web producers down in News 7 during the semester. The three of them rotate week long shifts and average about 6 hour shifts per day.

Hanley wanted to become a web producer because he loves the internet. ESPN.com is his most visited website as he is a huge sports fanatic. He gets most of his news from the internet. Working as a web producer allows him manage what news should and should not go online.

Hanley also likes the “free schedule” of web producing. He says that down stairs in News 7 there is a 5:30p deadline which is when you need to get stories in. However, up in Newslinc, “you are done when you’re done and it is a little bit more relaxed.”

As a web producer, like Courtland, he finds stories for the reporters down in News 7 so he will contact the producer downstairs and so they can figure out the more important stories are and then the stories are brought up into Newslinc for the writers to work on.

When the stories are upstairs, Hanley assists the writers and looks the stories over and give them some feedback. He then he posts the stories on the website in order in which they were finished for the public to see.

Hanley says that he cannot wait to web produce next year for his last year at Lyndon State College.

Photographer: Adam Donnelly
Reporter: Nick Aresco
Editing: Adam Donnelly/Nick Aresco