# @mynyit on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BdsRDiQAOei
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19751245-mynyit-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/488e64572e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-01-08T14:22:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** New York Tech (@mynyit) — https://gondola.cc/mynyit

## Caption

Billy Miecuna found himself alongside reporters from nearly every major news network in the world at the aftermath of a terrorist attack that occurred on October 31, 2017, when a man used a rented truck to run down pedestrians and cyclists along a bike path near the World Trade Center Memorial. Miecuna helped to set up the camera, lights, and other equipment for the news crews of Spectrum News NY1, where he completed a fall 2017 internship in field operations. For the budding news producer, the experience gave him firsthand insight into what it takes to cover breaking and sometimes tragic news.
Miecuna, a second-year student pursuing his B.F.A. in Digital Film and Television Production, worked in the ENG (electronic news-gathering) room renting out and managing equipment for the cable news network. The experience covering the October 31 truck attack showed him that the journey to becoming a producer is going to be full of challenges and surprises.
“It’s an incredible experience,” he says of supporting news crews from behind the scenes. “You get a phone call from the assignment desk, and they say, ‘Okay, I need Guido and Billy to get in the truck and go to the terrorist attack to get some footage.’ You don’t know when news is going to happen, but you have to be at the scene, you have to use facts, and you have to use a professional attitude because you can’t have a biased opinion. You have to tell people what’s going on. And you have to tell it in a very interesting way.” #StudentProfile #BearTales

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