Day 3 today and boy, was I nervous. OK so first off, waking up early (at 9 am) wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. 🙂 I wish my nerves got that memo, though, because I was so anxious. I only own graphic tees, and newsflash (see what I did there) you can’t wear a graphic tee when delivering the news. Then I remembered I bought this white top like a month ago and it worked. So then I log on, scared —because I don’t mind public speaking, I actually really like it, but talking on Zoom is a completely different thing. Plus we’re all getting told how to put our camera. (btw I freaked out before because I realized, I read the script but I didn’t MEMORIZE it). Luckily I just pulled it up on my laptop.
After doing a couple of takes of the broadcast I concluded that broadcast journalism isn’t for me. It was fun, but maybe because I was nervous or because the audio wasn’t so great but let me tell you I DESPISE MY VOICE. Well, at least I know what my niche won’t be. This was a fun thing to say I did though.
After that, my team and I were scrambling to get people to interview because the people we emailed just weren’t getting us anywhere. Luckily, at the end of the day we managed to get some replies and one of my team members even pulled together and got an interview 🥳. Now we are just waiting to hear back from more people. Interviewing is my favorite part of journalism and I can’t wait to do it. I am SO excited.