Month: December 2018

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/mizzou_football/liberty-bowl-more-tidbits-from-day-in-memphis/article_5ea83084-0afe-11e9-95ba-0fd3030b08af.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/prep_sports/local-roundup-tolton-boys-basketball-finds-redemption-in-great-tournament/article_d54f21d8-0b09-11e9-a2e2-27b94490da7e.html

Friday night, I did more of the same from Thursday night. I worked GA and I was able to put together a package on the quotes that we received from Liberty Bowl practice again. I also embedded tweets that showed each team visiting St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

The Local Roundup was actually the hardest part of the night because when something’s not covered, it’s very hard to find information about something. I couldn’t find very much with the Hickman girls basketball game and that definitely shows in the roundup. Tolton basketball and Hickman wrestling were more successful finds because people actually covered them and there were viable tweets out there with the information I needed. There’s a reason it’s a roundup and not a full-fledged story but it’s nicer to have at least some sort of box score for a basketball game, even if it’s a slaughter fest.

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/mizzou_womens_basketball/tigers-preparing-for-arkansas-state-with-dog-mentality/article_18b5ee84-0b8c-11e9-99e6-834391951ae1.html

Saturday, I wrote my first Mizzou women’s basketball story. I got the opportunity to go out to practice on the awfully cold day that was Friday and I interviewed the players and coach.

They knew that I was new covering them but they were all really nice and that helped the situation mightily.

I’m covering the game on Sunday so to be able to write the preview definitely helps how I’ll cover the game.

I thought the “dog mentality” mentioned was a nice tidbit that I was able to go off on and include throughout the story. I also inserted in the Game Information box that’s showing up on web. This also got chosen as an Editor’s Pick.

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/minimum-wage-increase-other-new-laws-take-effect/article_278dfd32-0936-11e9-b94b-f76a0cfcb2030.html

After the Christmas holidays and a hectic two-day swing from CoMo to Chicago back to CoMo in about 26 hours, Wednesday’s experience in the newsroom was a pretty fun experience despite being exhausting.

This was my first ever non-sports story. It seemed pretty daunting at first but I got into a flow shortly into my research. Jeanne guided me along as I made calls and emails while also scouring boring government documents to come up with the information in this story.

It was a rewarding feeling when I got done with it. Though it was rewarding and fun at the end of the day, I definitely have more of an appreciation for sports writing now. But, it’s nice to know that I can do more than just do sports writing in my long hiatus from regular news journalism. This was reassurance in that.

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/mizzou_football/liberty-bowl-tidbits-from-missouri-s-first-two-days-in/article_e582a0aa-0a34-11e9-8ffd-1f4d38ca2195.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/prep_sports/local-roundup-hickman-girls-basketball-escapes-in-final-minute/article_ab603394-0a37-11e9-9cde-d3088a842181.html

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/mizzou_football/local-briefs-three-missouri-football-commits-earn-first-team-all/article_6f9e6de4-0a41-11e9-be63-bbbea7e7f508.html

I worked GA for the sports desk on Thursday night. I wrote up the Local Briefs and Local Roundup by scouring Twitter and other internet sources to find scores for games that we were unable to cover. That was fun and I prefer the night-side shift on the sports desk over the day-shift in the newsroom.

The Mizzou football story I was able to pull together in a couple short hours. Michael had given me a few quotes from Thursday’s practices and I put them together in a quotes package story alongside some fun tidbits that I had seen on Twitter throughout the day. This was fun to do and I’m glad that I was given that information and pulled it all together in a short amount of time.

I also embedded a bunch of tweets into the football story and I think it’s always good to have a strong web-based presence for my content. So embedding tweets is a good thing to do and know. It also got the editor’s pick tag.