After receiving a positive evaluation for the first half of my time at Newsy, I felt more confident walking into the newsroom on Tuesday, knowing that at least I was doing the right thing, even if I wasn’t getting published.
On Tuesday, I pitched the story about Juanes’ big concert in Havana, Cuba over the weekend. He said it was a peace concert, but many Cuban Americans were very, very angry and thought he was promoting communism, so it was a great “Newsy” story with lots of different perspectives.
I wrote a script for it, and then revised it and the editor seemed to like the story, and to my great surprise it actually got published! I’m so overwhelming happy and proud of myself.
On Thursday, my fellow convergence colleague and me put the entire script together in FinalCut. It took a long time, mainly because both of us knew just pieces of what we were supposed to do, so I’m sure other people could have done it faster, but we figured it out ourselves and I was able to see my idea through from start to finish.
I was so excited and thought that I had finally found my footing at Newsy. Check out the video!
http://www.newsy.com/videos/tune_of_peace_or_communism
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