Valley Teen Is Chosen for Student-Run TV Show

Ivy Gullickson, 17, of Northridge, spent Monday pitching stories to producers, calling sources and anchoring a newscast viewed by an estimated 8 million students nationwide.

Ivy was selected by Channel One News, a show broadcast each day in about 12,000 secondary schools across the country, as one of 18 aspiring young broadcasters for its seventh annual “Student Produced Week.”

More than 1,000 students nationwide applied for positions on the editorial and production staff. Channel One staff selected the students.

Ivy, a junior at Louisville High School in Woodland Hills, was the only student chosen from California. At Channel One, she will be an anchor and a reporter.

Channel One producers said the students selected work hard, often all night to get things right. “Ten years from now, they’ll be the hot broadcasters of their generation,” said Jim Morris, Channel One’s executive director.

The teens this week will take over jobs as reporters, anchors, directors, producers, writers and behind-the-scenes operations in graphics, online journalism and camera operations. This week, they’ll produce daily 12-minute segments at Channel One’s studio in Hollywood.

They are also assigned mentors at Channel One, whom they consult with and shadow.

Ivy said she may become a broadcaster, or a choreographer. “I want to keep the doors open, and try different things before I decide what I want to do,” she said this week, between calls to producers and interview sources. “But I think this will be fun.”