Laura Richey~ In the news room.
Having the opportunity to take on the challenge as an education beat reporter for my journalism capstone is one that is priceless and definitely has had a positive impact to my journalistic skills.
Contextual reading in the class is important and personally enjoyed. I particularly liked the four-part series, "Innocence Portrayed," published in The Dayton Daily News, written by reporters Laura Bischoff and Mary McCarty. Another favorite; "Mrs. Kelly's Monster."
It's the on-hands experience that has taught me valuable and practical journalism writing skills on a beat. Attending school board meetings, election coverage and working with Middletown City Schools in general has taught me that contacts on any beat are imperative and one of the most important parts of a beat reporters position, next to ethics.
While interviewing community members on school levy issues I developed a better style of stifling my personal opinion to enable a more unbiased reporting style.
In the class in general, I was particularly fascinated with the class visits from professional journalists in the Miami University area, including Cincinnati and Dayton. While Miami University journalism graduate, Leah Rupp, is now reporting for a newspaper in Mississippi it was inspiring to hear her trials and tribulations that she has overcome in her short career.
I have learned through my capstone experience that news doesn't wait for anything or anyone. Family, friends, events and other classes must be sacrificed in order to get the story. I worried my family and I would suffer.
Happily, I have discovered I can juggle home and work under deadline situations. Although news sometimes breaks at the most inopportune moments, my family loves me and they understand I have a job to do.
My husband , Dave, says that I am a “bigamist. You love journalism don't you?,” he asked. The first time I heard him ask this question, I was in denial. “No way,” I said.
After a semester of non-stop thoughts of school levies, band camp, board meetings, sources and further examination I have decided Dave is right, I am married to him and journalism simultaneously. Of course not the same sacramental love I share with Dave but surely with a passion. I don't see anything wrong with that anymore. The more I think about it... if a journalist doesn't have a passion for writing and reporting then why would they go into journalism anyway?
--Laura Richey
Nov. 26, 2007
Having the opportunity to take on the challenge as an education beat reporter for my journalism capstone is one that is priceless and definitely has had a positive impact to my journalistic skills.
Contextual reading in the class is important and personally enjoyed. I particularly liked the four-part series, "Innocence Portrayed," published in The Dayton Daily News, written by reporters Laura Bischoff and Mary McCarty. Another favorite; "Mrs. Kelly's Monster."
It's the on-hands experience that has taught me valuable and practical journalism writing skills on a beat. Attending school board meetings, election coverage and working with Middletown City Schools in general has taught me that contacts on any beat are imperative and one of the most important parts of a beat reporters position, next to ethics.
While interviewing community members on school levy issues I developed a better style of stifling my personal opinion to enable a more unbiased reporting style.
In the class in general, I was particularly fascinated with the class visits from professional journalists in the Miami University area, including Cincinnati and Dayton. While Miami University journalism graduate, Leah Rupp, is now reporting for a newspaper in Mississippi it was inspiring to hear her trials and tribulations that she has overcome in her short career.
I have learned through my capstone experience that news doesn't wait for anything or anyone. Family, friends, events and other classes must be sacrificed in order to get the story. I worried my family and I would suffer.
Happily, I have discovered I can juggle home and work under deadline situations. Although news sometimes breaks at the most inopportune moments, my family loves me and they understand I have a job to do.
My husband , Dave, says that I am a “bigamist. You love journalism don't you?,” he asked. The first time I heard him ask this question, I was in denial. “No way,” I said.
After a semester of non-stop thoughts of school levies, band camp, board meetings, sources and further examination I have decided Dave is right, I am married to him and journalism simultaneously. Of course not the same sacramental love I share with Dave but surely with a passion. I don't see anything wrong with that anymore. The more I think about it... if a journalist doesn't have a passion for writing and reporting then why would they go into journalism anyway?
--Laura Richey
Nov. 26, 2007
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