Well definitely a good issue addressed in class was: how do you write an article together? Obviously it has been done before and quite successfully. Woodward and Bernstein, need I say more. I can only aspire to be as good and have such an impact with my reporting some day. But let us go back to baby steps here. It is quite difficult when you are still finding your own way as a reporter to then have to find a harmony with another person that can translate onto paper in telling a story together. 

Well now we are getting down to the nitty, gritty part of Journalism, every writers least favorite part of the writing and publishing process: EDITING!! Indeed even as a high-schooler I learned the wrath of the bleeding red pen. Our editor was so notorious for bleeding over copy that she was forced to switch to purple or green pens, in hopes she won't terrify students as much. But well we aren't in high school anymore and we are not just studetns anymore. We are REPORTERS, lets leave the student behind in the classroom. Scary for some, exciting I think. I learned a long time ago you have to have tough hide if you want to be a writer of any kind. There is always room for improvememt and well god knows I have a lot to learn. There are those times when you feel very studpid though watching your work being torn to shredds or re-written. Watching someone else in the hot seat, while makes you glad its not you, can't help but feel their pain. A lot of errors become obvious when public scrunity is involved. Well back to work on my re-write for my seat in heat is coming.

First trip to the NFL YET Center...Me and Latoya, my partner in crime for this assignment, were yet able to find the director of the center. Busy man the week of the Super Bowl, understandable but very frustrating. We refused to leave without information and did a little exploring around and before long found several staff members of various parts of the center willing to talk to us and tell us about what they do....One big thing I discovered, the usefulness of business cards or something to not only allow people who are willing and wanting to assist to contact you but give you a little creditability so you don't look like two girls just wandering around a community center. But I think we made it work, once we explained to people are motives for the most part they were willing to share. We actually had the supervisor of the computer lab quite excited about our project and providing helping information about the community around but I think will be an excellent source for future events and happenings.