My latest article was published in The Ryersonian today. They edited it down quite a bit, and some of it I'm not quite happy with (including the headline), but at least it's a clipping. They also used one of my photos in the print version of the paper and it's actually credited to me! I'm surprised; they said they probably wouldn't use any of them ( Read more... )

I don't feel well ( Read more... )

I'm already losing the war! Somehow I went almost a week without actually posting.

I went to cover Toronto City Hall with my news reporting class on Tuesday. None of us knew what to expect. I think we were all just hoping and praying that something worth writing a story on would actually take place. It really didn't. It started at 9:30 a.m. and I ( Read more... )

It's been a really weird couple of days ( Read more... )

Here's that article I was talking about in a previous entry that, apparently, I was not supposed to talk about before it was published.

Some of my colleagues have had complaints about how some of the editors at The Eyeopener edited their stories in the past -- introducing not only factual errors but grammatical and spelling errors as well. But I was ( Read more... )

Yet another dead-end story.

After interviewing all morning, I don't have a story. If I wait until the end of January I might have something. Everyone says they won't know anything until then.

Frustration!!!

I was trying to do an interview in the computer lab of the journalism lounge earlier, and a bunch of guys from Radio & Television Arts (known as ( Read more... )

One of the good and bad things about university is that you have about a month off school between first and second semester. It's like a mini-summer break - without the sun, the beach and the relaxation. Tomorrow is my first day back in classes in over a month.

I picked up a story at The Eyeopener. Originally I was supposed to be reporting on how ( Read more... )