Month: December 2018

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/man-arrested-in-connection-to-rape-on-mu-campus/article_fd15ed2a-0c5b-11e9-9c29-4f0c47cdec33.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/comogives-campaign-continues-strong-run-jazz-series-tops-all-recipients/article_eeb60378-0d23-11e9-a2df-9375556b3b78.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/mizzou_sports/local-briefs-tigers-baseball-exceeds-gpa-mark-for-fall-semester/article_cf81d490-0d1a-11e9-8825-573eacda54f0.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/other_sports/cougars-crush-central-christian-college-in-final-game-of/article_d5085942-0d48-11e9-ad08-db9d60d41a78.html

A very busy Monday morning had me doing the most work of the break so far for me. Not only did I do a local news story about a donation campaign. I also covered the Columbia College basketball game and came up with a feature idea from that game.

I’ve never had more than two stories on my mind at once. But today, I had like 5. It was nuts but I pulled it all together and made it work.

Before the day really got started, Scott updated my crime reports from yesterday with the latest information. He allowed me to peek over his shoulder so I understood how to update an ongoing story like that.

Then, he assigned me to the campaign story. I got great sources and interviews for the CoMoGives story with the help from Scott. Scott also edited my story and helped fill in the holes while I was covering the Columbia College game.

The Columbia College game came into fruition with a few texts between Michael and I. We weren’t originally planning on covering it but it was something for me to do sports-wise, so I did. From that texting exchange though, Michael told me to come up with a feature idea on top of the gamer.

While writing the CoMoGives story and working up my approach for Columbia College, I was simultaneously writing a sports brief about the Mizzou baseball team’s high GPA for the fall semester.

Today was absolutely crazy because I accomplished everything I was told to do and more. It feels really good and it also feels good to have taken all that on the run and still made it all work.

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/mizzou_womens_basketball/tigers-roll-past-arkansas-state-with-second-half-defense/article_84269970-0c86-11e9-9a90-93ba78f57dc2.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/man-arrested-in-connection-to-rape-on-mu-campus/article_fd15ed2a-0c5b-11e9-9c29-4f0c47cdec33.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/two-men-found-shot-dead-in-vehicle-in-moberly/article_0b38e58e-0c51-11e9-8d43-3f8a11e43e7e.html

On the 30th, I worked my weekend GA shift. I had already been assigned to work the women’s basketball game later in the day but during my time in the morning, I wrote up a couple of briefs on a double-homicide in Moberly and a rape-arrest in Columbia with the guidance of Sky.

I called both police departments to get word or any further confirmation before writing up the briefs. It was kind of odd to make a shift from arrests and criminal investigations to women’s basketball in one day but I made it work and it was fun.

The women’s basketball game was awesome. It was a blast to cover and there were a bunch of storylines in the game so the story practically wrote itself. I live-tweeted the game and included some of those tweets into the story. I also made centerpiece again for a bit yesterday. Today (the 31st), it’s all football. But it was cool to be the centerpiece again after this game.