Well today's journalistic tasks were to harass lots of people for information, utilise the internet for facts and figures for an article and conduct an interview. All were achieved but to varying degrees of success!
First was the interview which was for my campaign journalism assignment. The idea is to create a newspaper campaign for a local paper and conduct interviews which get to the heart of the story. My idea is a campaign to get improved disabled facilities in the university accommodation and the interview was with a guy i know of who is in a wheelchair which would really help the article. The trouble was i was completely unprepared, had some questions in my head but none written down so ended up forgetting half of them and after ten minutes the interview was over.
Granted, i did get a few good quotes and the interview is at least usable but it doesn't do much for ones confidence when an interview is finished before the drink i ordered was! And yet the interview i had done days previously with none other than Miss Manchester 2010, Elicia Davies lasted an hour and only ended because she had a prior engagement to get to. So i am not too disheartened but slightly!
The second task of the day was to email a lot of people about the same article since i have been getting nowhere with anybody. Well, this was slightly more successful, i at least got a response with one lady who has promised to set up a meeting once she is in her office next week.
And the third task was to collect facts and figures for both the campaign article and the feature article for which i was interviewing Miss Manchester. The feature article was originally going to be about the dying age of pageantry in the UK but having spoken to Miss Manchester i am inclined to change my opinion and the figures i found supported this. So having found dozens of interesting facts about the popularity of pageant competitions i was feeling very confident about the feature article and will attempt a first draft this weekend.
Unfortunately facts and figures about disabled access in universities across the country are much harder to come by so one article is coming along nicely and the other seems to be stuck in the mud a little at the moment!
So, journalism tasks done for the day and the house to myself for the evening. And what am i gonna do with it?? Catch up on some well-earned sleep i think!!
Over and out!
Gemma
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