The Raphy Report moves to SUNY Fredonia Incubator

Raphy Report creator/producer Michael Christopher Carbone, left, and Andre Cobham, founder/director.

The Raphy Report, a student-run, multi-topic news show produced by TRR Productions, has recently settled into the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator. TRR Productions is the first organization in the Incubator operated solely by SUNY Fredonia students.

TRR is a web-based program targeted toward SUNY Fredonia students, featuring brief video segments on a variety of topics. These include health and fitness, movies, local, worldwide, and campus news, sports, music, downtown nightlife, video games, internet videos, technology and more. The producers are always interested in new topics that will grab the attention of the audience. This semester they have added a political segment to inform students on the upcoming presidential election and the related primary candidates.

Now that the organization has found a home at the Technology Incubator, production is booming. The incubator promotes economic growth in Western New York by supporting entrepreneurship and the development of new, innovative, technology-based companies into successful business ventures. The move has allowed TRR Productions to create the quality of work that they have always strived to produce.

While TRR Productions began with only a handful of hosts and a few students interested in TV and digital film production, it has grown to over 50 interns pursuing such majors as graphic design, business, public relations, journalism, accounting, theater, art and computer science. TRR Productions gives Fredonia students the opportunity to experience their work ambitions in a real-life setting prior to graduation.