Today was my first day at the weekly. I have five stories I have to work on and my editor said she plans to give me another story each day. It is a lot. Since we're in Maine it is a lot of driving too. Today alone I drove 60 miles. Thankfully the paper reimburses for mileage. Although, it does not pay for stories: just salary. This makes me less motivated to do extra work.
It seems like a newsroom is a newsroom wherever you go. Yes, The Maine Campus is way more fun, it is louder and younger but the job is pretty much the same everywhere. Everyone at the weekly seems excited to have me.
When I shove my laptop out my apartment window I can bum one of my neighbor's wireless Internet signals, so I will be able to blog more.
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I just found out I am one of 25 people in the nation accepted into an investigative journalism camp. It is a week-long workshop taught by Pulitzer winning journalists, people from the NY Times and Washington Post. I am about to throw up I am so excited.
Work better give me that week off.
3 comments:
Congratulations!!! I know you'll do a kick ass job at this ccamp thing. And yay for being one of few!!!
Also, non-security encrypted wireless internet is the best.
(And apparently I suck at spell checking my comments. There is only one 'c' in camp. )
Thanks, I'm pretty excited about it :)
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