Okay cool, so I'm getting good at interviewing and researching. I'm asking more questions, and I'm getting more information. There is a downside to all the information.
It's information overload.
So I have all these pages of notes, right? And they're really great. And then I go through, ready to write my article, and I'm all over the place. I write my article and it takes me hours to reorganize my thoughts.
I don't know how the pros at The Boston Globe do it--how they present the information seamlessly. How they make the article interesting, informative, and casual when it needs to be.
I find it very difficult to make sure I include only the important information that the reader needs to know. I find it hard to cut out the stuff that I think is interesting, let alone only include the necessary stuff.
My most recent article is about Palestine and Israel. Marc Ellis came to do a speech on it and then take questions afterwards. I recorded the audio, did my own research, found out stuff about Ellis's background, got reactions from audience members, sent out several emails to leaders of the event and students who were part of it.
And I'm supposed to only put down the stuff the reader needs to know? Hardest part of being a journalist at this moment.
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