Beat Reporting (JOU-4881-01)

Throughout this past week and after submitting my final story 2 on Wednesday, I’ve made decent progress with my story 3. I took time to expand on the google document of information on my third story of Congdon Hall, and gather more information. I also came up with a few strong interview questions to ask my subjects later in the week. Tomorrow, I will be going to Congdon Hall again to get a good amount of my b-roll filmed for my package. When I am there, I also want to see if I could get a couple of sound bites from any students or community members who are there.  My beat in general has a few things going on. One that stood out to me was a NC student who just became the first transgender royal court queen. This would be a good story to do. More locally, the proposed High Point homeless shelter announced its plans moving forward. I also believe this would be a good story to cover. 

  This week, I worked more in depth on my wakelet story on the top 5 Halloween-themed events in North Carolina. Even though our draft was due last week and I had a good chunk of it complete, I decided to make it the best that I could, so I did even more research to provide the best information possible on my five events.  On Saturday evening, I even physically went to the one local event myself (Woods of Terror) to get a real life experience about the event. I took some of my own photos to incorporate into my wakelet story.  I also took some time over the weekend to look into my third story on Congdon Yards. I created a google doc sheet on some research I found along with some contact references to use. I looked up what good days and times are to go to Congdon Yards to check out the building on my own time. This week, I plan on finalizing, perfecting and submitting my final wakelet story and also getting ahead on my third story. My beat in general has a lot of updates as ...

    Over fall break, I took some extra time to finalize what I am reporting on for my second story. Originally, I was planning on doing my story on the Congdon Yards facility and the fall art exhibit that is being hosted there for the community of High Point. After learning in class how to use the platform Wakelet, I decided to work on this for my second story in my beat, and save Congdon Yards for my third.  I decided to do this because I wanted to work on it over the fall break week, but realized it would be hard to do without physically being in High Point. Since the Wakelet assignment is all done through personal research and design, I chose to work on that. Over the break, I took time to decide what to focus my Wakelet beat story on. Because it is the Halloween/Fall time of year, I decided to focus my story on the top 5 best Halloween-themed events throughout the state of North Carolina. I took time to research the most popular events that are hosted in the ...

            This past week, our final stories were due. I was lucky that I was ahead with my first story, and I was able to get my b-roll filmed and edited together way before the due date. On Monday afternoon (9/25), I went back to Stock and Grain to gather my last two interviews for my package and it was more than successful. I was extremely prepared with my questions for both of my sources. I did a lot of prior background research on each of my sources, Elizabeth and Ericka, so that they opened up to me more since they could tell I did my research. The interviews were very informative and I also was able to put together my entire package later that night and get it submitted on blackboard. I felt very confident with my first story and I am looking forward to getting ahead on my second story. I also spent a lot of time outside of class developing more research and connecting with sources for my second story on the new Congdon Yards building and the...