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Sure, the internet has its fun with Bill O'Reilly from time to time (to time...), but you have to hand it to the guy for clawing his way to stardom. It's rarely easy for a young broadcast journalism major to land a gig, let alone rise up from podunk assignments to the big leagues. Now such candidates are uploading their resume tapes to Youtube daily (h/t, windf*cker delicious) in the hopes of catching some producer's eye, somewhere.

The tapes are fascinating to watch, not only to observe standard practices for highlighting a reporter's strengths (quick cuts and serious tones, unless you're in weather/sports), but also to experience the tropes and rhythms of a local news broadcast without any real context. It's like a reel on the state of television news in some film workshop, without the work. And lots of the fresh faces out there are pretty good!

In no particular order, here are ten of our favorite tapes of potential talking heads uploaded in the past week, biased toward recent grads (i.e. probably in most need of a job). We start below with a young lady who couldn't be denied from the list. Cast your votes in the comments for the anchor you'd most like tied to your news, internet! You guys still watch TV, right?

  • Destiny Bounds is going to either broadcast on the Moon or go into fortune-telling. Or something.