During our bureau reporting exercise, I was able to experience the part of a bureau chief along with Samantha, while the rest of our team went out on campus and interviewed fellow students. At first I felt like I wasn’t really doing much, since it took a while for the first few quotes to come in, so I began doing research for anything relating to financial stress on college students.
I remember getting frustrated just because I wasn’t finding exactly what I was looking for through my searches and I couldn’t really figure out how to narrow them down. However, it was really helpful once quotes did come in to have a baseline of ideas to go off of. The one major problem Samantha and I experienced was that we had duplicate quotes from our team and we couldn’t get on the same page about how to compile them all. In the end, we worked together; Samantha worked on the text of the blog and I went through and inserted links.
Overall, it was an interesting experience, something I imagine is just a small hint of what actually occurs in bureau reporting on tight deadline.
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