This week’s rundown includes: lighting news interviews, providing clean drinking water to Skid Row residents and creating art to process trauma.

Knowing how to light a one-on-one interview is crucial for broadcast journalists. If you don’t have good lighting, your footage can’t be aired on TV. Bob Riggio, who has been a news cameraman at NBC for 42 years, gave NBCU Academy a lesson on interview lighting basics.

As wildfires raged just miles away, Steven Otero watched ash rain down on every item in his tent on Skid Row. Even his food and water weren’t safe from the toxic deluge.

“I put out a cup of water, and it was filled with ash in just minutes,” he said.

Although Otero said he has no underlying health issues or respiratory illnesses, he had difficulty breathing by the third day of the fires, which erupted Jan. 7 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and the nearby city of Altadena, killing at least 47 people and destroying 16,255 homes.

Lunar New Year is celebrated on Jan. 29, with the Year of the Snake bringing transformation through shedding bad energy. How are underrepresented communities, like America’s Chinatowns, changing? Get a behind-the-scenes look with NBC Nightly News’ Michelle Cho.

People exposed to traumatic situations, like ICU nurses, are looking for healthy ways to process their stress. Research shows this Colorado arts program for healthcare workers has helped lower their anxiety, depression and PTSD.

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NBCU Academy’s Next Level Summit on April 10.

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Desk Assistant, NBC News – Washington, DC

Coordinator, Post Production - Universal City, CA

Coordinator, Peacock Sports Programming - Stamford, CT

Production Assistant, News Now Daily 12pm-2pm - New York, NY

Digital Rotational Program, CNBC Digital & CNBC TV - Englewood Cliffs, NJ

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