News Reporting: GA Shift

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Well, today makes 11 straight days in a row now that it has been below freezing. It's so so so cold out there. It hasn't stopped snowing for like three days straight. The roads are all ice. So, I get to work from home today! Yay for being able to work remotely. My dog likes it especially. Today, I primarily…

Okay not really, but I sure feel like it. It has been snowing and icy for far too many days in a row now. The newsroom was even more empty today than usual as everyone worked remotely to avoid the snow. The quiet was eerie to work to. It was a pretty slow day as well. I spent the majority…

This morning I woke up feeling very ill, so I had to call in to my GA shift. I unfortunately have been having some medical issues that I thought I had mostly worked out, but I guess not. Even though I wasn't feeling well and couldn't come in to the newsroom, the one plus from all this pandemic stuff, is…

Man, it is icky outside! It has not stopped raining for like two days now. It has warmed up past freezing though so there is that at least. Despite my desire to stay in bed watching Netflix all day, I arrived at the newsroom bright and early for my GA shift. I was just in time to catch a couple…