2/28-3/1-Takeaways From Week

We had only one class this week, and the professor just gave us more input on our stories. I hope everything turns out well, as its a busy month for me. I will be interviewing my cousin and she is very busy, running for San Jose State University. Hopefully she will have the time to sit down, so i can finish the story.

Blog 7

For the profile story, I chose my cousin Camel Anderson. I chose her because she is living on her own for the first time, and is a student athlete at San Jose State University. I know her life story and she has experienced a lot at a young age. I hope to learn about her struggles and how she overcomes them in the interview. I believe it's are job as journalist to dig deep for good stories. I plan to video record her so I wont miss any quotes worth putting in my story. I am looking forward to to writing the story, but I am really busy with my internship and school. Hopefully It will be good, I will try my best!

2/21-2/23-Takeaways From Week

This week I took away how to write alternative stories of a main story. You can do this by having a fact box, checklist or timeline. There are plenty other methods, but i believe the ones i listed are the most effective. we also had time to ask our teacher personal questions in order to get prepared for our profile feature story. It was great to see what kind of questions is important to ask and which were not. I can wait to start writing to apply these techniques.

Blog #6

I found Lille Ammnn blog to be very helpful. Lille dropped knowledge on her viewers by giving tips on how to better editing your own work. She mentions good writing is a must if you want to get a point across, for example to sell something to a company. I took away three main tips that I will try to work on daily. The first one is to "remember that writing comes before editing." This mean that she doesn't want to you to worry about making every sentence perfect. Write down and go back to correct is the best method she points out. The next tip is "to read the work aloud." You will be shocked how reading a sentence out loud can help correct a sentence. She mentions to find someone to read your work so you can here another voices perspective. The last tip is to "get another qualified opinion." If you can get an editor or teacher to go over the piece with you, it can be very beneficial. This is a wonderful blog, I am going to start recommending it to people on facebook and twitter. I hope to be an almost error proof journalist in a couple of years.

2/14-2/18-Takeaways From Week

This week, the class gained a lot of knowledge on how to do investigative stories. Professor taught us how to become effective writers and we talked about our h.w on the "Cost of Dying" article. It was great to talk about this story in class because i think it really motivated my classmates to do their upcoming investigative story. I feel like i'm developing more into a complete journalist day by day, by learning and doing the different writing styles.

Blog #5

Inkygirl is a blog done by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, a writer from Toronto Canada. Debbie made the blog to offer content for writers who are interested in cartoons, interviews and writing tips. There were three things that I liked on this blog. The first was the website design. On the left side of the website, It was organized with Debbie blog post consisting of writing, colorful pictures and videos. This design doesn't confuse the viewer and makes the flow and theme of the page a pleasant experience to enjoy. The second thing I liked was the comic pictures. Almost all of the pictures are done by Debbie and her staff. The pictures are so well done and creative, that they convey the message perfectly. The last thing I liked was her openness on the website. She is willing to take comments on how to improve her blog and gives people multiple ways to contact her primarily using email or twitter. What I picked up from this blog is to make my writing and images more visual. Painting the best picture possible for story is very important for journalist to do for the reader.

http://inkygirl.com/

2/7-2/9-Takeaways From Week

We went over our enterprise/investigative stories this week. It was interesting learning about this type of writing structure. Also listening to the stories my classmates where going to develop gave me insight on how to frame my story. I learned about the ethics and what questions to ask the source, to get great quotes. This is a crucial part in journalism, so you have to do this effectively to capture the audience. I can't wait to start the story and show my classmates.