{"id":19,"date":"2019-10-23T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/?p=19"},"modified":"2019-10-23T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:03:00","slug":"manitowoc-minute-charlie-berens-visits-whitewater-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/2019\/10\/23\/manitowoc-minute-charlie-berens-visits-whitewater-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cManitowoc Minute\u201d Charlie Berens Visits Whitewater Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday, October 15 comedian and journalist Charlie Berens paid a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. Berens is best known for his one-minute spoofs on Wisconsin news known as the Manitowoc Minute<\/a>. During his time on campus, Berens visited Dr. James Kates\u2019 Journalism for the Web class to share how he got his start in journalism and to provide some advice to students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a new college student, Berens didn\u2019t initially have much\ninterest in becoming a journalist but was motivated by his brother to get\ninvolved in journalism on the UW-Madison campus. During college, Berens began\nworking for MTV as a field journalist covering various stories based in\nWisconsin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through his work with MTV, Berens had the chance to cover the controversial 2008 Republican National Convention where he was arrested, and his camera was confiscated by the police. When his equipment was returned, all the footage with scenes of protests and police force were gone. Berens told the class that this experience, \u201c\u2026Showed me the power of journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following graduation, Berens moved to Los Angeles to work for Herzog, a production company known for the CNN docu-series, the Decades. As a behind-the-scenes employee, Berens made himself useful by hauling equipment to and from studios using the mini-van he bought from his dad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After getting tired of the Hollywood lifestyle, Berens made his way back to traditional journalism as the anchor for a news station in Dallas. After winning an Emmy for an environmental report, Berens took his skills from years of production work and started making his own comedic newsreels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was from these fake newsreels and his Dallas director\u2019s\ncriticisms that the Manitowoc Minute was born and went viral on YouTube in\n2017. Berens says it took time practicing jokes at open mic\u2019s in Los Angeles to\nbe able to riff and make people laugh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the explosion of the Manitowoc Minute, Berens has been\nfeatured on Fox, CBS, Funny or Die and soon Comedy Central. He\u2019s currently on\ntour across the country and has performed at several well-known comedy clubs throughout\nthe United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students from other classes took time out of their day to\nsit-in on Berens\u2019 visit. Rachel Charniak, a UW-Whitewater senior and social\nmedia manager for the campus radio station, 91.7 The Edge, said about Berens, \u201cHe\nwas so nice and him and Patrick from High Gear Promotions were so awesome and\nfun to work with. They even let me talk about the radio station at Charlie\u2019s event on Saturday!\u201d Charniak said\nBerens helped create promotional material for the station and even provided a\nshort interview for the station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berens left students with advice to start doing journalism now\nusing the tools and technology available. Berens told students, \u201cAnything you want\nto do you can learn.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Charlie Berens and to see his\ncurrent tour schedule, visit his website: http:\/\/manitowocminute.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 15 comedian and journalist Charlie Berens paid a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. Berens is best known for his one-minute spoofs on Wisconsin news known as the Manitowoc Minute. During his time on campus, Berens visited Dr. James Kates\u2019 Journalism for the Web class to share how he got his … Continue reading \u201cManitowoc Minute\u201d Charlie Berens Visits Whitewater Campus<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/j347annacatlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}