It was clearly the news of the day: “Barack Obama re-elected as president of the United States”.

For us MA IJ and MBJ students @UCF it was an easy choice what would make number one in the running order of our daily news meeting in our very own newsroom.

One of our many tasks during our training session with Mel Osborne was to get out and get reactions on the result of the US election. Were people caring at all? How did they feel about Obama winning against Republican challenger Mitt Romney?

Here is what people on Tremough Campus think about it, wrapped up in a 37 seconds cue+vox pop piece that maybe could’ve made it into yesterdays radio news bulletins: