Category: Internal monologue
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The difference
“What if they kill you?” the little boy asked, sobbing over his parent’s uniform, stroking the badge. “I’ll be okay,” was the response full of fear, knowing that the average number of cops killed in one year happened over just one night. “What if they kill you?” the little boy asked, sobbing into his hands, holding…
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I’m realizing there’s going to be moments in my life where I’m so shocked and baffled that something so horrid can be done to humans, by humans, that I feel frozen in time. And my brain feels waterlogged. So heavy. And this is a result of being a journalist because half the time, we seek…
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Missed opportunities, but permanent connections
Do you ever realize that there’s these people who you know decent enough, but not quite well enough or to the extent you wanted to know them? Well, they’re just slipping away. The image of them standing next to you, with you, is being swirled around and distorted, eventually to the point where they’re not…
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Getting into podcast!
This is the first podcast I’ve ever really compiled. ‘First dates’ is a short three minute piece that juxtaposes two pretty alternate experiences gathered while doing voxpop-style interviews. (This is where you ask the same, one question to multiple people, and compile their responses together in one piece.) Putting this together was actually a lot…
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An addition to my must-do list:
Context, context, context!!! Reference previous quotes, and give historical background when relevant. DIG DEEPER
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My story with the Seattle Globalist selected for UW’s Kaplan Quarterly
Along with nine other great articles by fellow UW students, my Nepal Earthquake Relief article was selected for the Kaplan Quarterly, 2015 Spring edition (located, for now, on their Current Edition page). The Kaplan Quarterly was created in memory of Deb Kaplan, a journalist who created a narrative journalism course at the UW. Her brother remembers…
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Photo journalism
I love being able to be both the photographer and the writer for articles, and I got the opportunity to do that this year along with some really fantastic equipment thanks to the UW Communications department. I’ve finally created a Flickr account so that I could share my photo skills; it’s now linked into my…
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As I’m experimenting with my journalistic writing, I’m realizing more and more how much my political beat can be jargony or simply just a hard read for my audience to fully finish. And I don’t want that. I want the opposite of that. I mean, sure, maybe the beat itself is inherently more boring to…
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Getting back into geeking out with a camera
I honestly didn’t expect COM 361 to have my fellow students and I go headlong into producing content so quickly. But I really enjoy the challenge, and it makes me happy to finally talk about things outside of the UW bubble, not to mention things going on around the world. For our first article, however, I…
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Things I need to navigate
I’m slowly but also anxiously becoming aware of the role I want to fulfill as a journalist, though it makes me nervous. The SPJ code of ethics tells us that a part of our job is to be a watchdog, but at the same time it tells us that we shouldn’t participate in things outside…
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