Like first-time homeowners showing guests around their new place, Bob ’59 and Pat Schieffer ’61 gleefully explained how the journalism school’s new convergence lab worked and how much students were learning.

In February, the couple flew in from Washington, where Schieffer moderates CBS’ “Face the Nation,” to attend the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the $5.6 million expansion and renovation of the College of Communication and Schieffer School of Journalism’s facilities in Moudy South. The 2,300-square-foot convergence center brings together the TCU Daily Skiff, TCU News Now and Image magazine operations in one newsroom, where students learn to report the news over multiple platforms.

In remarks made prior to the ribbon-cutting, Schieffer said it’s imperative to train students to report across all different types of media.

“We can’t just train these students to go out and be newspaper reporters or to be broadcast news reporters or to be freelance magazine writers, they have got to be familiar with all these various parts of journalism because they do not know, and we cannot tell them, what part of journalism they be working in, in the future,” he said.

Deborah Ferguson ’87, who anchors “NBC Today” on Channel 5, KXAS in Dallas-Fort Worth, served as master of ceremonies. “Yesterday, when I was walking through the building, I was a little jealous of all the fancy tools and the new computers and everything the students use today that I didn’t get to use,” she said.