My Introduction in Advanced News Reporting
(The following is a supplement to an in-class discussion involving my personal career and educational status and decisions as required in advanced news reporting.)
It wasn't my original plan to be an editor, or even a journalist. I had planned, upon my high school graduation in 2005, to be an electrical engineer, taking classes at YSU, Washington and Jefferson College and Kent State University. I switched majors to architecture and business computers before settling on journalism back at YSU.
By the time I entered the program at YSU, I had already completed all of my non-major requirements and then some. Also, having started college classes my senior year of high school, I am a year ahead of my peers. However, since taking the full-time editing position at the Hometown Journal, I have been limited to 6 hour semesters and may be slower to graduate. The pay off of the job experience is well worth it.
I joined this class to further my experience in reporting, expand my portfolio and eventually graduate. I plan on using this experience as an opportunity (and even an excuse) to get out from behind the desk and be able to edit some of my own work rather than some of my freelancers. I look forward to the class and am anticipating some good road trips.
It wasn't my original plan to be an editor, or even a journalist. I had planned, upon my high school graduation in 2005, to be an electrical engineer, taking classes at YSU, Washington and Jefferson College and Kent State University. I switched majors to architecture and business computers before settling on journalism back at YSU.
By the time I entered the program at YSU, I had already completed all of my non-major requirements and then some. Also, having started college classes my senior year of high school, I am a year ahead of my peers. However, since taking the full-time editing position at the Hometown Journal, I have been limited to 6 hour semesters and may be slower to graduate. The pay off of the job experience is well worth it.
I joined this class to further my experience in reporting, expand my portfolio and eventually graduate. I plan on using this experience as an opportunity (and even an excuse) to get out from behind the desk and be able to edit some of my own work rather than some of my freelancers. I look forward to the class and am anticipating some good road trips.