Hello and Welcome to the second week of the semester!
Today, Wednesday the 27th, I had my second GA shift of the semester.
It was a brief kind of day, as in I wrote three briefs.
I first attended the Airport Advisory Meeting and wrote a brief about that. It was a pretty standard meeting where they said all the projects were progressing as scheduled, so there wasn’t that much news. The one exciting piece was the airport is going to be changing their name.
It was really interesting sitting in on the meeting and watching the process. These people were VERY Passionate about the airport and had put a lot of thought into little aspects I wouldn’t have ever noticed. I attempted to show that thought process in my story since I think it gives the story a little more depth (even though it was a brief).
here is that story: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/columbias-airport-needs-a-better-name-committee-suggests/article_29ac3c42-60e5-11eb-bcb6-eb705a6b652e.html
At the end of the day, I was also assigned to write a couple COVID briefs, found here and here.
These were really simple, based off press release, briefs so they weren’t too much trouble or too much fun.
I did side-by-side editing with Skylar today which I found really helpful. She helped me workshop my lede and nut graph. I apparently have a tendency to combine the two rather than writing a lede that has only the most important info and leaving the rest to the nut graph. Especially after the second story, the trend was very obvious.
Scott also reviewed one of my stories and gave the advice of “the delete key is your friend.” I needed to be much more concise in the brief; I was about 100 words over.
Overall, a news filled day with some great editing experience.
This week I have two GA shifts, so I will post some journalistic thoughts on Saturday, and then a shift summary on Sunday after I have worked. Stay tuned my dudes.