Biography
TC McCarthy is a multimedia journalist from New York who specializes in video, photography and web design.
For as long as he can remember McCarthy has been fascinated by technology and the world around him and so he has found great happiness in journalism.
He started his higher education career at the University at Albany where he studied foundations in American Law and liberal arts. At Albany, his plans were unsteady and all he knew was that he wanted to go into television broadcasting.
As a freshman, he was elected to be the director of Albany Student Television. In his time with the station he was able to revive it from its closing nearly two years before. He restored regular programming and pioneered a new relationship between the television station and the university. Additionally, he was the first to develop a rudimentary web site for the station to stream live video. For the first time in history, ATV was available to people all over the world.
This instant spread of access to information fascinated McCarthy and he decided it was time for a move. He found Stony Brook University’s Media Arts and Digital Arts minors, which seemed to be exactly what he wanted, but he never quite made it into the program.
In his first week at Stony Brook, McCarthy involved himself with Stony Brook University Television. His first assignment was to shoot an interview with the Associate Dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook. Marcy McGinnis, the associate dean, encouraged him to take an entry level journalism course. He enrolled in Journalism 101, a course in News Literacy at Stony Brook. The course helped him to realize, he had the ‘news bug.’
He is constantly looking to be a part of the ‘cutting edge’ of journalism. He has held several internships along the way. As an intern at Newsday, a Long Island local publication, he was charged with the task of taking stories and making them interactive. He developed online applications, like a carbon footprint calculator, to help ‘drive home’ complex stories to the audience. He held a similar internship with WPIX11 morning news, a local New York broadcast.
Interning taught McCarthy two things: the first is that interactivity adds tremendous value to stories and goes further than anything else in educating the public about a story. The second is that multimedia is how he can best engage people in the news.
Shooting and editing video for TV and the web, and producing interactive applications that stretch across multiple demographics are among McCarthy’s top story telling skills.