After two unsuccessful weeks at Newsy, I was sure that this had to be my week. I knew what I was doing now. I had thoroughly researched a story on the Elton John adoption issue the night before. I was convinced that it was perfect—lots of video sources and various opinions. This would be my Newsy story, I thought.
I got to Newsy and got started writing and doing more research. To my great surprise, the graduate student in charge of supervising us actually liked the story. She seemed impressed that I actually achieved something. She even passed it on to another person to put it together so that it can be published!
Finally, after two weeks I was getting published. I am very proud of myself. I remained optimistic despite some bad experiences and I was determined to do something right and I guess I succeed. Hopefully it’ll be published soon, but it hasn’t yet. Sometimes, it seems like it takes Newsy a while to get stuff up on their website.
On Thursday, I was not as optimistic walking in because although I had a story idea ready to pitch, I wasn’t very confident about it.
Regardless, I pitched my story about how the Senate passed the bill that would allow guns to be checked on Amtrak trains. It was a good Newsy story because it had a lot of different viewpoints, however, I was able to find no video sources for it, which is a major problem at Newsy.
I eventually found one video source, and a ton of blogs on the issue, so I wrote my story and the editors seemed to like it, so it’ll probably go to another person to finish writing it and see if other video sources appear in the next few days. I was happy and relieved that this week at Newsy was better than before, and I hope it continues that way.
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