It’s the Slash in Me
When you're a senior in college, you can't evade the question. It's asked at the dinner table, at every family reunion and even via text message. But the absolute worst experience has to be while getting a teeth cleaning in the dentist chair over winter break. I was reclined, with my ...
If there’s one detail I remember about my mother covering the Andrea Yates trial, it’s that she survived off of those tangerine flavored Altoids. What else was she to do as she sat there for hours on end taking in the grisly details? While her bite-sized, flavored pick me ...
The (New) Social(?) Network
When I held my ticket to the advanced screening of “The Social Network” in my hand, a feeling of excitement and anticipation rushed over me. However, to express these emotions, I didn’t phone my mother and I didn’t ...
Too cool for J-School
When I tell people I'm entering my senior year of college as a journalism major, they usually look at me funny. Whether it's an "I feel sorry for you" or a "good for you" look, I can never truly tell. However, there are two worlds of thought on ...
Even though I'm still a senior in college, I find myself browsing job postings every so often just to see what's out there. They're usually littered with terms like "MMJ" and "digital journalist," but never before have I seen anything like this: Executive Producer and Imaginator (Full-Time Position) A radically different ...
The first thing that used to come to mind when I thought of the word “reporter” was a pen- the image of a frantic journalist jotting down notes at the scene of a story. Those days are long gone. With today’s multimedia equipment, a reporter hardly has a free hand to use ...
I’m writing this blog from a bus seat at 7 AM on a Saturday morning on the way to New York City. I have an iced coffee in one hand (because there are no cup holders), and another hand on the keyboard. The wireless network just so happens to not ...
One of my favorite things to do at my internship at WBZ-TV is to sit in the morning meeting and listen to the news of the day. Stories are pitched, ideas are shot down, and I feel like ...
