Diversity
In all honesty, I believe I did a pretty good job of covering stories within my beat, College Park. I think I have learned a lot about how to expand my knowledge on contacting people, interviewing people, and coming up with questions, especially about who to contact. I believe in the beginning of the semester, I was intimidated because pitching ideas was very difficult for me because I had to think of much more than just basic information, I learned to dig a bit deeper. As I was able and I am thankful for joining a second news organization, La Voz Latina, in which the majority of my clips are published. As it did become frustrating getting in contact with sources as some blew me off or did not want to talk, I learned to be patient. However, I did like exploring the different story topics within my beat. I think with some assignments, I had to quickly be on my feet to think of an alternate plan because I learned when you have a story idea but that idea does not work out, you have ...