End of the year wrap up

Wow! How is it already the end of the semester already. It seems like I just started! They're going to be redoing the newsroom this summer so today is filled with movers packing up the newsroom. It really adds to the end of the year vibe. For my final post, I thought I would do a full list of my…

Sunday Thoughts

This first masterpiece is actually from last Sunday. "Dru Smith's love affair with defense" by Joel Lorenzi. I loved! the headline and the summary though. I don't normally read the sports section too thoroughly, but this headline caught my attention. I thought the language in it was excellent, the voice was captivating and I thought the secondary interviews gathered really…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Everybody better wear green! Unless you're Ruby. "If they pinch you, hit 'em with this umbrella!" Ruby said. "Maybe that's why no one pinches me; I'm violent..." Ruby then mused. I'm wearing green though, because I'm not nearly as assertive as Ruby. I began my shift with a brief about the new West Boulevard Elementary School principal. This was fairly…

Sunday GA shift

Hello all! I am working GA shift today, Sunday, March 14. When I got in the first thing I did was check the Missourian's home page and the 0700 report. On the 0700 Report, I found two arrests for the abandonment of a corpse, so I worked with Will, the ACE, on that story. We checked CaseNet, but it wasn't…

Weekly Thoughts with Wells

This week, I was feeling a little burnt out by the news. I am seeing the same three topics covered again and again: COVID testing, COVID vaccines, and government problems with COVID. It's starting to become really repetitive. I did like Irina's story about the women who formed a facebook group to help seniors get vaccine appointments. I remember reading…

Wednesday Work Report

It wasn't an exciting Wednesday or anything. I am currently working on a couple Public Life stories. I ended my day with an interview with a source for one of those stories. The rest of my day I spent on a COVID testing story. I had to look up a lot of information and make a few calls. I didn't…

Sunny Sunday Thoughts!

Happy March! And March has brought sunshine finally. The first thing I want to remark on is the front page of the Missourian paper on Sunday. (Pictured below) When I saw this beautiful story for the first time on the website, it featured the portrait more prominently. This drew my attention. I was disappointed to see that in the print…

Wednesday: the Return of Ali (to the newsroom)

Welcome back to your regularly scheduled appearance of Ali in the newsroom. It's Wednesday so I am back for my second GA shift in a row. Today was a long, long day. All I did was make endless phone calls and made no progress. I was working on two stories: a reaction story to the new public health orders and…

Bonus GA shift

Since I was out of town last week, I had Irina cover my shift and traded her for a shift today (Tuesday, March 2). It was a busy Tuesday. I began with working on a story for Pete on following up on the City Council’s new orders for COVID. Yesterday, we published a pretty fact-driven breaking news story about the…

Relaxed reflection on Sunday

So, you all may have noticed I didn't make my usual Wednesday post. This is because I got the pleasure of spending the last week in sunny Florida. It was immensely relaxing and I enjoyed it. While on vacation, I still had two stories publish that I had been working long term on. The first is the Nclusion Plus story.…