Writing During the Rona'

 This week I wrote two published stories and worked on three stories, that have yet to be finished.  The two that were published were time-sensitive, and so finished within an hour or two of the assignment. The first one was on the Carney press release. something I do every week. This week I wrote about how the state announced CARES funding for healthcare business, primarily focused in the southern two counties.  That can be found here:  https://delawarelive.com/2020/10/20/state-to-give-100-million-to-healthcare-companies-much-of-it-downstate/ The second article I wrote was on UD's announcement on how they plan to bring back students to the campus during the fall semester. This article cannot be linked, because it was posted on town square Delaware, which seems to be under construction at the moment.  The three articles that I worked on this week should be done sometime next week or the week thereafter. The first one that I'm working on is a profile of the Dr. w...

 *NOTE: This blog post is about a week late so I'm just going to post what I did last week like normal and then do a second post later this week* This week I ran two articles, one was a standard wrap up on Governor Carney's Covid press release, something that I've been doing every week for a few weeks.  that can be found here:  https://delawarelive.com/2020/10/13/public-health-no-more-virus-hotspots-but-state-is-watching-several-places/ The other article I did was on a comedian doing a show at the end of the month to raise money for breast cancer awareness. as far as work goes this was the highlight of my week. Troy Hendrickson, creator of the mildly famous character "Aunt Mary Pat" was a great interviewee, very open and conscious of his words, plus he was just fun to talk to. I was really able to come up with questions on the fly while talking to him, so to me that either means I'm getting better at interviewing people and thinking critically while I'm ta...

 This week I only wrote one article. Partially because Betsy (my editor) was on vacation and partially because this week was slammed with midterm papers and exams from 3 of my 4 classes.  On Monday I covered the Newark city council meeting, but there wasn't a story there so I didn't end up writing anything for it. On Tuesday, I covered Governor Carney's weekly Covid press release; There wasn't much there this week either. The only real thing that was newsworthy was DPH's decision to change the way they count the COVID cases in the state to be more on par with other states.  That Article can be found here:  https://delawarelive.com/2020/10/06/del-adopts-new-ways-to-count-cases-contact-trace/

 This week I wrote four articles, two of them I enjoyed and two of them I was relatively indifferent to.   I was able to do my first feature this week with a teacher from the Wilmington area who won the Lt. Governor's challenge. He was very kind, and the work that he does is an objectively good thing. He helps students handle their traumas and teaches them the ways of mindfulness, something I found out I'm a proponent of. I think doing features is something that I really like, I always like talking to new people with this job, or at least learning new things about people that I'm talking to.  https://delawarelive.com/2020/10/05/teachers-mindfulness-lessons-help-cut-suspensions-disruptions/ Another article I did was a story about DSU and its success in having students back on campus in the midst of the pandemic. I talked to the comms guy at the school a lot as well as students and teachers. It was interesting to get the perspective of other students from another school on ...