Hello and welcome to my blog! I started this blog out of the necessity to practice blogging for my capstone journalism class. We are required to do this because apparently blogging is the new journalism. Through this blog, I hope to review my own works and follow my growth as a journalist this semester. As journalists we rarely take the time to review our own work and look for areas of improvement. This blog will allow me a few of those moments when I can look in the mirror and improve what I see.
My interest in journalism began as a hobby but quickly evolved into more when I became the co-editor of my high school newspaper. It took me a few years to realize I could pursue this passion as a profession. I am now a journalism major and work as a news reporter and assistant news editor for the UNC-affiliated newspaper, The Mirror.
This semester I am reporting on international students at UNC for my beat. I have never had the chance to cover a beat and looking forward to the experience I can gain from this. The main things I hope to learn by covering a beat are how to be a better writer, how to be a better researcher and use the resources around me and also how to tap into my own creativity. Already I have seen how much work needs to go into covering a beat, because you really do want to be an expert on your topic and at the very least know all the experts!
I am a solid writer, but this strength sometimes makes it hard for me to think outside the box and get creative with my writing. I have so many ideas for stories in my head, but it is difficult for me to articulate these ideas into concrete leads and stories. I hope to use my strengths to build on my weaknesses and become the best journalist I can be.
Blogging is becoming such an important tool in journalism, and I am excited to tap into the power of this tool. This is my second semester blogging for UNC as part of UNC's student perspective blogging corps. Yup - I'm selling the school. But you should still check it out!
Blogging on my own has been a lot of fun, but I am looking forward to starting this new blog and learning how to make it better. I want to learn how to create an interactive conversation with my readers. I'm confident that I will be able to come up with ideas to post regularly, but I am nervous about trying to make these posts relevant, fresh and interesting. As I expand my own "blog diet" and learn more tricks of the trade, I hope to become more confident in my own experience and in my blogging abilities.
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