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Week 1 (8/27) Update

This week, I started Beat Reporting with Dr. Eltantawy. In this class, we were assigned different beats to cover throughout this semester. Due to the unbelievable experience I had over the summer interning with 6abc Action News in Philadelphia, I learned a lot from the lifestyle wing-anchor at the station. Therefore, I chose to cover the lifestyle beat topic for the city of High Point. I want to use this opportunity to use everything I learned this summer and apply it to my reporting and stories.

First, I decided to start off by finding a couple trustworthy websites and sources to find the most trending topics to cover throughout the semester. I found out that for personal my beat segment, I will mainly use yesweekly.com, hpenews.com and myfox8.com. 

After digging deep on these sites, I narrowed down the stories and decided I wanted to cover the new food hall in downtown High Point: Stock and Grain Assembly Food Hall.

I decided to start with this place for a few reasons. The overall construction drive for downtown High Point has been skyrocketing over the past year. As I begun researching, this food hall is a central asset to the High Point community and a big amenity to revitalize downtown. Because of the location and purpose of Stock and Grain, it has, and will continue, to bring the community together with the numerous food choices, social gathering spaces and weekly entertainment segments. I also believe that this new addition to downtown is still not publicized enough to the city. I think that when word gets around to the public about Stock and Grain Assembly, it will become super successful and a beneficial addition to High Point.

This upcoming week, I plan on going to Stock and Grain to take photos and videos, especially on the nights that there will be live entertainment. I also found the contact information of a High Point Business Community Leader, Elizabeth Yocum, who is now leading the marketing and community engagement for Stock and Grain. This week, I will set up a day and time to talk with her about her involvement. I will also use this interview to make more connections and contacts with other officials. I also am planning on talking with the business owners of each of the food stands to learn about their connections with Stock and Grain, as well. In the School of Communications here at HPU, the HYPE student organization is involved with the marketing of the new Stock and Grain. I will tighten up and create connections throughout the week with the students and faculty involved with this.





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