C-Span Presentation at PVCC

Campus News Events

Skye Scott, assistant editor

On Tuesday, March 21, Ashley Hill came and spoke at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC). She is a producer and local content vehicle driver for C-Span, which provides unbiased, gavel-to-gavel coverage of political discussions and meetings.

Hill was in Charlottesville for C-Span’s City Tours, where three videographers embedded themselves in a city for one week to learn and cover the history of that city, according to Hill. The Charlottesville edition will air on C-Span on April 15-16 on C-Span’s Book TV and American History TV.

Other C-Span producers were also in Charlottesville to cover the Virginia Festival of the Book, which they cover every year. That will also air on their television channel.

C-Span is different from other news stations, since it is nonprofit. They also do not control the cameras during coverage of events in the capital, so they are not able to skew what the watcher sees or hears.

C-Span channels contain no commercials or advertisements, so companies or outside influences do not affect the content they are able to show on television or their website.

Students can access any videos offered on C-Span’s website. They can also create short clips of different events; all they have to do is create a C-Span login.

Hill did not just come to PVCC to talk about what C-Span does, but also to talk about journalism in general. She said that no matter what you want to do in life, to learn how to do everything for that field of work. She also said that if you love something, to learn how to do it all the way, and to be passionate about it. Showing your eagerness and passion can help make you a better candidate for the job in the long run.