Rick Goldsmith Interview

Beyond Class Activity: Academic

On October 10th I was part of an all female crew that interviewed 2-time Oscar nominee Rick Goldsmith. Rick was at UNE for a screening of his new film Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On the Brink. I was Assistant Director, there were two girls from communications class were the camera women, Emily Hedgard was the interviewer, and there was a girl running audio. The interview went really well, but halfway through the monitor for camera A died on us and we had to take extra time between the interview breaks to change it. Other than that everything ran pretty successfully and everyone had fun. Though Rick took a lot of time in his answers and we ran over the time limit for multiple sections, so we couldn’t ask all the questions we had written out. He was really passionate about his work and the journalism crisis in the United States. I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed working with the other girls and Professor Siegel.