Crossed My Mind

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 ...