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<v ->The News Associates Program is a pipeline program</v>

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for people interested in production.

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The program is one year, starts after Labor Day.

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And it's usually for people who have either spend time

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in journalism or are coming out of graduate school.

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Sometimes it's straight out of undergraduate.

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We have news associates throughout the news crew.

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Many have been promoted into senior jobs.

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And so it's a real mark of the program

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that we can retain people, we have an 80% retention rate.

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And that the new news associates can see

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what the goals are for themselves.

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<v ->Rodney should have arrived already.</v>

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We are watching the control room during

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MSNBC Morning Joe's extended election day coverage.

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Usually this is my show, the 11 o'clock hour,

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but Morning Joe is going from nine to noon right now

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because it is election day.

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So we are covering all the exciting events

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and I live for it every four years.

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<v ->We have a special after seven pm eastern tonight</v>

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after nightly.

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We're cutting pieces of video that will be used

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in the broadcast.

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A lot of voices coming at us but it's only the beginning.

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<v ->The real goal of the program</v>

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is to bring the best and the brightest in.

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And it's also a chance for them to have exposure

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with our great senior producers, executive producers,

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and really be taught and mentored and nurtured

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by supervisors along their rotation.

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<v ->So there was a machine that went down</v>

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and people have been waiting there for hours.

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Part of the job at the desk is

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that we're actually taking a lot of viewer calls

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about potential irregularities in voting.

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<v ->We went to a few polling place Staten Island,</v>

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specifically the ones that were relocation spots

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for Hurricane Sandy victims.

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<v ->That's what I like about the desk</v>

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is that we get it sourced first, we get it checked first.

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<v ->I'm working in the Bureau now</v>

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and I've been able to go out and field produce.

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So glad I'm doing this.

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<v ->I've many times dreamed</v>

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about covering an election for a network.

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<v ->It's just been very interesting to see how</v>

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all the different shows and divisions come together.

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<v ->I'm surrounded by a bunch of people</v>

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who care equally about the future of our country,

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clearly, they're standing out here in the cold.

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<v ->The news is all around us,</v>

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there are literally stories everywhere you turn

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and it's an honor to be able to tell them.

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<v ->The news is exhilarating,</v>

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you never know what's going to happen

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<v ->What you're gonna be researching,</v>

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covering, field producing.

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<v ->Every day you don't know which story is gonna lead</v>

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and it's our job to stay on top of it.

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<v ->News is a front row seat to history.</v>

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It puts you actively engaged in the issues

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that are involved in our time

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and be part of something that's bigger than yourself.

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<v ->The news is addictive,</v>

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I can't wait to get up every morning

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and see what's going on in the world.

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<v ->News is information.</v>

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<v ->It is critical to our daily lives.</v>

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<v ->News is consciousness of the world</v>

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and the people around you.

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<v ->The news is storytelling.</v>

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<v ->The news is us.</v>

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It's our communities, it's our state,

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it's our nation, it's our world.

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There is no better way to understand yourself

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and understand what's happening around you

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than to look at the news.

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The news is us.

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