Three weeks already gone?!

With almost three weeks already passed (how has it already been three weeks?), my adventures as an Education reporter with the Columbia Missourian are under way. After working both as a general assignment reporter and on education-specific stories, I am finally beginning to navigate my way past the bumps and bruises of starting out and into the challenges of reporting. 

I kicked off the semester with a piece on the  upcoming controlled burn workshops hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation. While it was a straight forward story, I felt great to make my start with this piece. Being able to talk about a subject that I had previous knowledge of helped me to kick off my position confidently. In this short piece alone, I was able to get to know my own journalistic voice in a way that I haven’t been able to in the past and further learned more about writing concisely and without excess. 

My education reporting kicked off with a story on the group of MU students and faculty from the documentary journalism program that traveled to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. This piece propped open my first door to learning and writing about the University of Missouri. 

The combination of brief and longer pieces continues with what I am working on currently and I am excited to continue exploring more stories in the weeks to come. 

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