The First of Many

This post begins what is sure to be a challenging and interesting semester (with any luck, a fun one, too!) Sitting in class on Wednesday I was feeling a little 0verwhelmed. I was one of the less experienced students, with many people in the class having already done their internships and having been TNH staff writers for awhile now. Still, I am now feeling a lot less nervousness because I realized that everyone else, and I don't mean just every other student in my class, but also many, many journalists young and old (some of whom have been reporters for decades), feels the same way. Even the most experienced reporters are now having to learn the art of creating multimedia, whether its photo slide shows or videos to accompany articles. So I decided I don't have to worry, because we are all learning together.

After realizing that, I got really excited. This is going to be an awesome experience and I feel confident that participating in this course will make me a much better journalist: a journalist of the future. A lot more is going to be expected of journalists in the years to come and I am glad that I can start to prepare myself for that now.

In the area of story ideas, I am still at a bit of a blank. I have been trying to think about different multimedia projects that could be done for this class and for the newspaper as well, but it's kind of hard to know what will make a good video. I am sure that in the coming weeks, however, I will come up with something. For now, I am happy to start learning the art that is multimedia.