I’m young and so is my career. I don’t have a Pulitzer and popular middle school girls have more Twitter followers than I do. But it wasn’t that long ago since I was in school and I’ve learned a few critical differences between studying journalism and getting paid to be a journalist. Most of my experience is in radio broadcasting, so I’m writing this through the lens of a … [Read more...]
My First Story: An Intern’s Intro to the Ugly Side of News
I seriously questioned if I wanted to be a broadcast journalist the first time I shadowed a TV news reporter. I was interning for a local news station for the summer in Washington, D.C. and I had never doubted my career path until that point. I rode in the backseat of an SUV that was wrapped with the station’s logo and call letters. Sitting squished between tripods and … [Read more...]