CNN 2011-06-29

This week we're taking you behind the scenes to answer a question we get asked a lot around this time of year. What does CNN students news do over the summer? Let's go find out. First up, we are gonna talk to the executive 1 producer of CNN students news, D.K.

During the school year, I'm in charge of the content for CNN students news the program and the website, and in fact, I'm in charge of content throughout the year. But I like to take look ahead in the summer. So, one thing we do a lot of here is planning. You can't predict the news, but you can tell when there are some important events you are going to have to focus on. For example, the election 2 in 2012 is going be very important. But we also know that, you know, Black history month in February, and women history month in March, financial literacy 3 month are all months that we like to focus on here at CNN student news. There are also people who come to Atlanta during the summer, and they'll send us emails and say we're coming, is there anybody from student news we can say hello to?  And if we are here, we'd love to come downstairs and say hi and do a little meet and greet with you. So if you are coming to Atlanta, let us know.

Next up, we'll check in with our producer J.D.

My job during the school year is deciding what news stories we are going to cover, what stories we are going to hear, and what elements we need to tell those stories, what video, what sound, what graphics 5. So during the summer, what I'm doing is,  I'm looking back what we do the whole show, and seeing what works 6, what doesn't, what can we do better,  and working with graphic 4 artist, the video editor, picking new music, deciding what we can do to freshen up the show so that it's interesting for your guys to watch.

This week we'll go behind the scenes to see what the CNN students news staff is working on the summer. And the next person we're going to talk to is our associate producer N.J.

So this summer, I'll be focusing on some more career connections segments 7 that you may have seen throughout the 2010-2011 school year. You're going to get to see the behind scenes of an editor, who puts together some cool stuff 8, not just for our show, but for several other shows. But on top of that, you're gonna be working with teaming up with different departments like CNN international and CNN en Espanol. So that way, for the next school year, for the 2011-2012 year, we can try to get more guests, we can try to diversify 9 our level of guests that come on our show.

And there's one person on the CNN students news stuff who doesn't need introduction from me.

All right, you know what I do during the school year, but I have a second here at CNN, many of you may not know about. It's done right here in CNN's main studio, and I'm usually on between 12 noon and 1.pm eastern speaking with CNN's  S.N. I deliver reports that go in depths and give a little more detail about some of the stories in the news. So if you are around between 12 and 1.pm, turn on CNN newsroom, I might see you there. And another thing I'll be doing over the summer is I might be filing some reports from Washington D.C. So I'm looking forward to going to the nation's capital and doing a little work from there.

Next up is going to be our web producer, J.D.

During the school year, I am responsible for cnnstudentsnews.com. I update the page, I make sure the show is available for streaming. I make sure the show is available for podcast. During the summer, I'm working on some behind the scenes thins, possibly we redesigning cnnstudentnews.com, redesigning our daily email. And I'm working on being a cameraman, carrying the camera for all interviews.