The goal for this piece was to have our readers find out new information about the online registration process here at Fairfield. We want them to find our story interesting from start to finish, and also have our web presentation set our story apart from the prior registration stories written for The Mirror. We knew that the only way that we would obtain our goal of seeking new information for our readers was by meeting with people such as Robert Russo and Dr. Malone. After we outlined our story, we knew that it was because of the helpful information we received from Robert Russo that we could finally consider our story ahead of the curve. We also made the executive decision to include Jeff Seiser's opinion, since his voice represents the student body as a whole. Although there were several horror stories that we came across throughout our research, most of them were worked out by administration. We thought it is beneficial to put a face to a person's quote whenever possible, this is why we put our assistant coaches profile as a link, also because he is a Fairfield alum.
While creating our final story, we focused our attention to chapter 12 of All the News, by Thom Lieb. It was quite difficult to think of ways to display an attractive online article for the “very exciting” topic of….registration. However, when we met with Robert Russo, he gave us enough information to create a detailed timeline of how Fairfield has updated their registration process since 1980. From the chapter, we also focused our attention to the information telling us how to use hyperlinks and primers efficiently.
At first we were going to present our story from the past to the future of registration, but since we did not think that it would effectively attain the reader’s attention, we decided to unveil the future for 2010’s registration process, backtrack to as late as 1980, and then end with talking about the future again.
We both agreed that this was quite a complex story to create, yet we feel that we have both become better journalists because of it. In order to complete our story, it required us to do the most research we had ever done for a story in this class. We had to be vigilant with who we selected to interview in order to make our story stand out from the many other registration stories that had been prior to ours.
The hardest part was to find a news peg that separated our story from the rest. We also had to be cautious about writing on registration only, and steering away from going into detail with Fairfield’s core. After we met with Robert Russo, our esteem for writing our story finally went back up. He gave us essential information that very few students and faculty knew. We also had a hard time deciding how we wanted to make it an advanced online story. After receiving all of our information from our interviewers and outlining all of our facts, we were able to sufficiently create an appealing online story.
We learned that there is no room for procrastination if one wants to be a successful journalist. Luckily, we have a very understanding professor that gave us an extension, which helped tremendously with getting down to the “nitty gritty” of our final piece. We continue to sharpen our skills of finding the perfect news peg. However, we know that as we take more journalism classes, we will be able to sharpen this skill by the time we graduate. We can both say that we are truly confident to turn in our final story.
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