Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
I defended my master’s project before my faculty committee yesterday afternoon. I was prepared on paper but wasn’t exactly, er, focused. I had been sleeping in hour-long increments since Saturday night, so I was a little tired. And I made the mistake of skipping my morning coffee and eating at least half a cup of [...]
Last night I sent a draft of my research project to my committee. I had revised it a few times since I sent the first rough draft to my chair April 3. Final page count: 214. On Saturday I fly back to Columbia. On Monday I’ll give an open presentation about my project. On Tuesday [...]
I turned in the first draft of my project today. 196 pages, which doesn’t include blog entries. Weekly field notes and transcribed interviews were single spaced. I’m going to need to plant a forest to cancel the bad karma from printing this thing. I backed up my entire Documents folder to the external hard drive. [...]
Today was week three of Children’s PressLine. Last week, my aunt made me take my cousin because she needs a spring activity and she didn’t play softball this year. About 8-10 kids come pretty regularly, ranging in age from 8 to 13 — Eugenie is the oldest at 16. The kids read newspapers, looking for [...]
I have interviewed 10 journalists at the paper: editors, front-line reporters, reporters who joined staff post-Katrina. Each interview lasted an average of one hour and 15 minutes, time that flew by too quickly. These people tell stories for a living. Telling their own stories is something they rarely have an opportunity to do. Each has [...]
If there was a silver lining in the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe,, it was the boost of civic involvement and sense of community. Young and old, rich and poor, albeit in different ways, all went through Katrina. Some New Orleanians who didn’t experience extreme damage or loss, like reporter and now city editor Gordon Russell, felt [...]
“Perfect objectivity is an unattainable standard for journalists even in the best of times. Because nobody’s a robot, no journalist can be expected to write in a way that doesn’t reveal at least a little something about who that journalist is… Objectivity became that much harder for local journalists after Hurricane Katrina. We who write [...]
The word research strikes either fear, mystery or disinterest into non academics who hear it. Aware of this, I avoid using it or slur through an explanation of what the word means for my project. Watered down for mass consumption, my research project can be described: I’m interviewing reporters and editors at the paper about [...]
I went to the Times-Picayune building today to meet with Lynn Cunningham, the assistant to the editor, about my project. The large newsroom was cluttered and lively, people moving about and talking loudly in the aisles. My meeting with Lynn offered a starkly silent contrast. I pitched my project and how she could help me [...]
For the next four months, I will be living and working in New Orleans, La. to complete my masters degree professional project. I have been to New Orleans a handful of times in my life, the last being March 2008 to report a story for the Columbia Missourian. While reporting, I felt that I was [...]
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