At first glimpse English 721 seemed to be like any other journalism course. I was excited to be able to dabble in photography and web content, but could only guess how much time would be spent on either journalistic aspect. I came to be pleasantly surprised this past week at what this class would actually entail. Not only am I going outside of my comfort zone of writing hard news articles, but I have now been given the opportunity to work in the ever-growing field of online journalism and multimedia aspects. I'm beyond excited to expand my horizons and add some past hobbies, such as photography, into the mixture. I'm looking forward to an atypical journalism class, and am thinking in the long run it may end up being my most beneficial. I hope to take away the skills necessary for an ever-changing work environment. As the internet becomes more popular and the printed copies of papers slowly become replaced I will be ready for the revolution. I hope to take away new skills and to expand and work with old skills I may posses. I'm really ready to absorb all the information thrown at me not only from Howard, but from all the guest appearances. I am especially looking forward to hearing what Rich & Deb have to say, because after working with them this summer, I find that they seemed to also have amazing advice for myself as a budding journalist.
A piece of online journalism I came across last semester during a newswriting critique has always stayed with me. From the Boston Globe, Choices of the Heart is a 3-piece story revolving around parental struggle & how three different families overcame obstacles to make the best life for their children. Videos supplement the three feature stories. Globe reporter, Patricia Wen really dives wholeheartedly into all the stories and obviously put a lot of time and energy into her interviews.
2 comments:
Sarah,
I watched the piece about the adoptive mother who gives her troubled son one more chance. Very powerful. It's a great story with a moral dilemma and is also very well done from a technical standpoint. I like the mixture of still and video photography. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Sarah, I loved every single one of these multimedia slideshows. Each had a different style. The one with the mother deciding whether to take her children to the Dominican Republic was especially moving because of the crying. She didn't even speak that much or speak english but it was such a powerful story. A few sentences combined with the pictures made this story unforgetable. Thanks for adding this to the blog.
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