You might notice that I included this piece under both Writing and Broadcast. There are two reasons for that: one is that I have so much affection for this piece that I wanted to include it twice, and the other is that I felt it counted toward both writing the script and editing the audio. I had to step out of my comfort zone in multiple ways while working on this because I didn't have much experience with audio at the time, and it was also a relatively intimidating social situation to be a journalist at this intimate gathering. But I was incredibly inspired by the material and had a great time at the game and while editing the audio. I walked away feeling I had done justice to a group of people and to an activity that deserved a nuanced, thoughtful piece — I knew that a lot of that was owed to the students I interviewed, but I was proud of myself as well.

This piece was both a learning experience in terms of editing audio (edited down from over an hour to a crisp 8 minutes!!) and collaborating with another reporter. Our Arts & Entertainment Editor, Lila, and I worked together to write the interview questions, but she moderated the roundtable and I edited the audio itself. It was amazing to be able to trust a team member to excecute our collective vision, and then take the work that she had done and bring it across the finish line. This piece also got a lot of positive feedback from U-High students, as we had worked to include a broad range of perspectives and many listeners from our school felt seen and represented. 

I filmed the B-Roll for this video and collaborated with the main reporter on interview questions and structure! Our goal was to create an immersive piece that would give viewers the feeling of studying at the Reg.

This was my very first audio story — putting aside the near-fistfights I had with iMovie, it gave me all of my background multimedia and how to create a cohesive story through voices and sound! My goal with this piece was to go beyond a news-y angle about the robotics team, and instead examine its social and cultural impact at U-High.

I was on a family trip in New York when I filmed and edited this video (I had agreed to the assignment even though I knew I'd be out of town. Ah, the ambition of a cub reporter). Reporting from afar required flexibility and discipline, and it reinforced how much strong planning and tight editing matter for multimedia. My goal with the piece was to make an easy-to-understand tutorial about a few of the games that viewers could follow if curious.