Crossed My Mind

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Friday was rushed. Rushed to get to school, rushed to the loan office, rushed back to school for another class, rushed to work, rushed home where I rushed to get ready in one hour for my limo pick up. Through some friends (Rachelle and Krystalle), I procured a ticket to a RRC alumni dinner where Global National anchor Dawna Friesen was the MC. So I get there with my friends and step into the Fairmont. I spotted Dawna ...

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I see all the time in the news stories about missing and murdered women, and it makes me angry, one missing or murdered woman is too many and it is pretty disgusting how often it actually occurs. I suspect a lot of people think about it, but you don’t see that many people doing anything about. Not Shelley Cook, she cares and I respect her for starting this project and bringing to light how important of an issue this ...

The Occupy Winnipeg movement started on October 15 and is being held in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began in September in New York and has spread to countries all over the world. Not even a month into Occupy Winnipeg, their stand is made more difficult by snow. So now that the first snowfall is here and it is beginning to get a little frigid, I ask myself, why are those Occupy Winnipeg people ...

Today the journalism students went to the Law Courts to find a hot scoop. We met up with Mike McIntyre for a little lesson of what to expect, what to do, and some leads on story ideas. I really enjoyed being there and stayed until 3:00 when I needed to get back to school and type up my article. I am excited to go back and think I will get to for more Law Courts assignments. Hopefully one day I will be a reporter and ...

Good news for journalists in Winnipeg. In the past week it has been announced that Nelly Gonzalez from Global Winnipeg is moving to CBC and Nancy Carlson from CTV Winnipeg is moving on to Global. Except, these journalists won't be staying in Winnipeg.  Nelly took a job with CBC as a reporter in Brandon, and Nancy took a job in Alberta as late night anchor with Global Edmonton.  Nancy's last day is Wednesday, ...

On October 4th, I was assigned to Global Television to help out with election coverage. I was put with Nelly Gonzalez, a Global reporter, and we went to Canad Inns Polo Park, which was the PC Party’s election headquarters. I kind of knew what to expect since I have been out with a reporter before on a live hit as part of election coverage, so I knew the big interviews would come after the winner was announced. I have ...

Last week my first article for The Metro was published. I haven’t really been writing any articles since I was the intern news editor for the Projector and writing for The Metro made me realize how much I missed writing and creating pieces for my portfolio. When you get busy with school work, real work, and spending time with friends, and family, some things kind of just get pushed aside.  I tried something ...

I went to see Page One: Inside the New York Times and I immediately wanted to see it again. It was interesting, enlightening, and funny. I loved firecracker reporter David Carr especially and Brian Stelter. I went home and started following Brian on Twitter because I admired him and I liked how he said that every reporter should be on Twitter. I agree with him.  He made me realize how important Twitter really is and the importance of it in my future as a journalist.  Page One tells us the main reasons why the newspaper industry isn’t doing very well. One being that people don’t actually buy the newspaper any more and two, because there isn’t a lot of advertising revenue. A large ...

I follow Winnipeg Free Press urban affairs reporter, Bartley Kives on Twitter and I love it. What I appreciate the most is that he often tweets in a very tongue in cheek manner on topics such as food, politics, Winnipeg specific issues, and sports.  I value Kives as a journalist, and because I like him, I always read his articles online or in the paper from beginning to end - which isn’t always a given. ...

Shooting at my place. Click to read the (very vague) article. The other morning I was woken up by the sound of very loud bangs. It was 5:30am and I remember sitting in by bed trying to figure out whether or not they were actually gunshots as it is not unusual to head loud bangs around my building. There has been a lot of crime in Winnipeg over the past few weeks, months, and years. But I have always felt safe in Winnipeg and I haven’t had any real troubles to scare me. But when I went to school Tuesday morning and found out that those loud bangs were in fact gunshots, I began to feel a little scared in my own home. I do feel a little comforted knowing that the shooting was targeted. But not ...

I have always loved to write and to tell stories and I know that that will be my job one day. Being a journalist is what I have wanted for years. When someone asks me what I am taking in school, I tell them Journalism. I usually get a smile, a nod, and a, “good for you.” Followed by something along the lines of, “So what will you do with that? So you want to be on the news.” But Journalism is much more than just being on the news. It is about evolving. It is social media. It is technology. It is telling the truth. It is current. To me, Journalism is right now; it is getting word out immediately. Where radio and newspaper used to be go-to news outlets, we now have sites like Twitter ...

So Monday evening, May 2nd, I arrived at CTV studios and met with Kelly Dehn, the assignment editor. Dehn had a sore back but still was super nice to me and took the time from his busy schedule to ask what I was interested in, and decided on the best person to place me with. Kelly gave me the choice to sit in the studio and see how the newscast is put together or to go out with a reporter on a live hit to see the information gathering and live hit side of it. Since I am more interested in the in front of camera action, I wanted to leave the studio. Kelly put me with weekend anchor and reporter Nancy Carlson, who is super nice by the way. It was election night and we were to go to Liberal ...