Finally as promised….

Here are my package videos…

And I lied haha. I don’t have the upgrade available to load movies for this so I will upload them to Youtube I guess and then you can see them there.

Oh well. It is good to find out though that this last package was my last one as a practicing student and now I have been promoted to KOMU. It comes as a huge relief before spring break. That was my realistic goal the whole semester and now its time to focus on what I can do in the future.

As a journalist, I feel like this was a huge step in the direction of what I want to do the rest of my career. I am highly interested in news production, but the experience was great to become confident in my reporting skills.

I found weaknesses I never thought I had: My facial expressions and posture on camera, my lack of being my true self in my reporting, inability to locate the hard facts. All of these happened during this semester and I am glad it did. Because now I know what I need to work on and I realize these mistakes before they go out to a real live audience besides the 6 members of my lab class and Greeley.

That’s the important thing I have learned from this process.

On my first tour of the KOMU station, the tour guide told me “You’re going to make mistakes. It is expected for all of us here  too.”

Greeley mentioned the beginning of the semester that “the more you bleed in practice the less you bleed in combat. ” It is so true. I realize that if I thought I was a reporter or maybe I pursued a job after college without this experience, it would’ve been a disaster. If it happened to Greeley in Memphis, then it definitely would happen to me.

Now it is off to KOMU. The station that I was eager to work at for years to get cool experience and then maybe shunned away from when I never made the commitment to try. Regardless, I am excited and ready to be out there.

For package 5, I covered the Mayoral Debate for college students.   It was great to see how the candidates are interested in issues prominent among students. Some of those issues were police walkthrough downtowns and landlords. For more about the debate here is an article in the Columbia Daily Tribune…

Thanks for reading and I will blog to you later