August 14, 2008

Today is the last Thursday of my internship and my Brazil story was pushed back a week. Through one of my other sources, I found a Brazilian man with plans of moving back home in October, but he keeps flaking out on interviews. I've called him three times a day for the past week or so and left messages on both his work and home phones. He's pretty much impossible to get a hold of.

Knowing it would make my story that much better to start with an anecdotal lead involving this guy, I'm really hoping I can interview him before tomorrow. Besides that, I feel like I've written a pretty informative article that wouldn't be bad the way it is.

Today I'm driving around Woburn taking pictures of every school in town (12 to be exact) for the back to school issue coming out in a couple of weeks. It's not exactly the most exciting thing in the world, but it's easy.

If lady luck is on my side, I should be getting a call back from this source. If not, I gave it my all, tried my best and am proud of the article that came out.

August 7, 2008

It took me six weeks, but I finally earned some money at my internship. My first person disc golf story was published in a half dozen local newspapers and I got paid for it, which is awesome. I'm pretty pleased with what I wrote.
Also today, my bass fisherman story came out on the front page and it looks pretty good. It was an interesting story to write and in my opinion, the lead was one of the best I've ever had published.

With time running out on my internship, I'm just about to get started on my Brazil story. I'm just waiting to interview a man who is actually planning to head back, for an anecdotal lead. I've got pages and pages of interviews and statistics and my editor is really expecting a big story. I'm excited to start writing.