-The first step would have to be finding a story. After you have a story that you think would capture the readers attention, you have to figure out how you are going to about getting information for the story. The first thing that should cross your mind should be getting interviews with primary sources related to the story. After conducting many interviews to get the most information possible, you have to construct the story, make a title, and finish your first draft. After finishing that draft, having someone read it would be a good idea. That way you can avoid any and all grammatical errors and also make sure that the story is interesting. After that, you should correct anything that you find until you have either reached your deadline or you are fully satisfied with it.
2. What could be particularly challenging?
-I think that a challenging part of being a journalist would be interviewing people. The stress to make sure that you get as much information as you can without coming across as noisy would be remotely difficult. Another challenge would be to construct a story with no form of bias in it at all.
3. What resources might you use to overcome these challenges?
- The resource that I would use to overcome interviewing people would be an audio recorder. this might not seem like it would make that big of a difference, but to me it would make a world of difference. Knowing that I would not have to be writing down everything that they are saying, would relieve me of a lot of the stress that comes along with that situation. To get over the whole writing without bias, I would say the only resource would be experience. Taking the time to figure out if there is any bias in your writing is not just a one person task. Asking someone who you have confidence in to read your story and make sure that there is no bias would be another great way to defeat bias.
-Zack Harrell
