Recent C.W. Post Graduates Achieve Success at NBC News

(left) Betty Kane, Reena Temburni

When news happens, chances are Reena Temburni and Betty Kane will hear about it first. The two, who graduated from C.W. Post’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, both work in the Media Assets Department at NBC.  Temburni is a news video logger. Kane is a media archivist. Their department works within NBC News serving “Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Dateline,” and the “Today Show.” The department is responsible for logging and archiving all of the news footage.

Kane, who graduated cum laude in May 2005 with a B.F.A. in journalism, started at NBC in July 2005 as a news logger, but when a position opened as an overnight archivist that August, she jumped at the chance.

“As an archivist I log and archive new material as well as search through the saved material for producers and editors to get them the footage they need,” said Kane, a resident of Haskell, N.J. Because she works overnight, she mostly works with producers and editors from "Today."

Temburni, a 2006 graduate with a degree in journalism and broadcasting, logs video feeds that are fed to the NBC news department to create records for archiving purposes. “It’s basically recording history as it is happening,” she says. 

“C.W. Post definitely got me to where I am now,” Betty Kane said, citing professors in the journalism and broadcasting departments, her honors program classes and her experiences on the staff of the Pioneer. Although graduate school could be in her future, Kane says she’s happy with what she is doing. “I definitely want to see where this position will take me. I would love to move into news editing at some point.”

Temburni would also like to stay at NBC, ideally moving to “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” or “Saturday Night Live.” She’s also looking at graduate schools, possibly for an M.B.A. in international business.

The two are good friends who met during Temburni’s freshman orientation as Kane recruited students for the Pioneer. Later that week they met again through a mutual friend and again at the Admissions office where they were both work study students. “We hit it off right away and have been friends since,” Kane said.

No matter what path the two young women head on in the future, the past will always be right behind them. “C.W. Post provided me with a sense of home and comfort,” Temburni said. “It’s a place where I can easily come to see some professors-turned-mentors and really, just have someone to chat with that knows what it's like out there in the business.”