New blog idea

So in my last few blog posts this week I touched upon several subjects that have led me to this post. I mentioned that I’ve come (been forced) out of my shell a lot over the past three years as a journalism major. Also, I’ve been discovering some Tumblr pages specifically that have caught my eye and have had a lot of viewership. This leads me to the idea of starting a “firsts” or “lessons” blog. It would be me writing about things that I learned and experienced while writing stories over the years in college and at my internship at New Hampshire Magazine. As I’m nearing the end of my college career, there are plenty of things that come to mind. For example, last week for my digital reporting class, I went to the Freedom Café and learned how to brew coffee with their state of the art equipment. Though this wasn’t the focus of the story, I saw the opportunity and thought that it could add a new dimension of character to the piece. Taking this experience (and the videos I took) to a new blog and expanding more could prove to be a really interesting idea. Hopefully people would be drawn to read it. Fellow journalists could get ideas for stories and anyone else who runs into the site could be entertained by such endeavors and attempts at adding to a story. As a journalist, I’m lucky in that my experiences so far have led me to opportunities and experiences I would not have had if I chose any other major. Out of my box and with a notepad in hand, I have more than a few funny, behind the scenes type stories to share. The bits that didn’t quite make it into the story but are actually stories in themselves is the main idea behind the blog.