During the course of this semester, I have learned how to approach high ranking members of the community and ask them intelligible questions to which they feel obligated to expand on.
Creating a blog was an incredibly exciting experience for me because it is unlike anything that I have ever done in any of my other journalism courses. It gives the writer a chance to be published on the web for the world to see what one has to say on the topic at hand.
I wish that we would have covered more topics than solely the happenings of the Greeley City Council. Being such a small community, it makes it hard to find a topic of conversation that is newsworthy and interesting to the reader.
I would have liked to have known that we would be attending Greeley City Council meetings every other week in order to better prepare myself for the course as a whole.
The most difficult thing about the class was finding a topic to write about every other week at the City Council meetings. The council covers so much information so quickly, and sometimes barely discusses an extremely important topic, that you must be listening at all times in order to catch the minutest of details.
The advice I would have for those taking this course next semester would be, be prepared to be extremely patient and let the stories come to you. Make sure you are constantly taking notes at every meeting and you will be sure to find an interesting topic to cover.
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