BEST OF MY PORTFOLIO
From the classroom to the Collegian to The Well News, here is my short-and-sweet highlight reel.
FROG WIZARD FESTIVAL
News Package | April 25, 2024
Channel 8 anchor and reporter Carter Schaffer reviews the significance of the Frog Wizard Festival last Saturday, and the impact of local music for the community.
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This week, I played main anchor, and while anchors typically don't do content for their week, I made a VOSOT and this package.
WRITERS GUILD STRIKE HITS DC WITH PROTESTS AT MARVEL MOVIE LOCATION
The Well News; Labor Article | Thursday, June 29, 2023 | Published on Web
Members of the Writers Guild of America and their allies used the filming of a new Marvel franchise feature near the White House as a platform for airing their grievances and marking the start of the eighth week of their prolonged strike.
STUDENT PRICE INDEX LOCALIZES NATIONWIDE INFLATION RATES
The Collegian; News Article | Vol 128 Issue 10; Friday, October 28, 2022 | Published on Web | CMA 2023 Honorable Mention in Best Interactive Graphic; KCM 2023 Honorable Mention in Digital Storytelling
As prices increase across the country, Sydney Rehagen, senior in economics and supply chain management, is on a mission. As the vice president of the Kansas State Economics Club, she set out to answer one question: how are K-State students impacted by inflation?
KSU CAPSTONE: KSU NIL
The three-person team of Maddie, Noah and myself took on how NIL is affecting K-State Athletics. Our plans for the project started with interviewing members of Athletics, interviewing staffers of Wildcat NIL, interviewing students around campus and interviewing NIL sponsors and partners. We wrote stories and made digital content using these interviews in a captivating project. Follow our website and our socials to see how it all progresses.
IAN PUNNETT, PROFESSOR AND WILDCAT 91.9 ADVISOR, DIES AT 63
The Collegian; News Obituary | Saturday, December 23, 2023 | Published on Web
Ian Punnett, 63, chief operator and faculty advisor for Wildcat 91.9 and professor at Kansas State, died Thursday after battling a genetic non-alcohol-related liver disorder.
POKÉMON’S ‘THE TEAL MASK’: SHORT DOES NOT MEAN SWEET
The Collegian; Arts & Culture Review | Vol. 129, Issue 4 | Friday, September 15, 2023 | Published on Web | KCM 2024 Honorable Mention in Review
The Pokémon franchise has a good track record of making lengthy, engaging stories for your gameplay adventure that take the sting out of the big price tag most Nintendo games carry. However, Pokémon’s first half of its “Scarlet and Violet: Hidden Treasures of Area Zero” downloadable content add-on, “The Teal Mask,” surprised me with how soon the journey ended.
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I decided to follow up my review of the game as a whole with the first part of the DLC: "The Teal Mask." I thought I broke things down well for readers and it flowed well while giving a little bit lengthier review. I did not think it would receive any accolades, but it did place at the KCM 2024.
BREAKING: KELLY PROJECTED TO WIN OVER SCHMIDT IN CLOSE RACE FOR GOVERNOR
The Collegian; News Brief | Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | Published on Web
Laura Kelly/David Toland (D) are projected to win with 49% for Governor/Lt. Governor with 100% of the vote counted. Derek Schmidt/Katie Sawyer (R) follow with 48% of the vote while Seth Cordell/Evan Laudick-Gains (L) hold 1% and Dennis Pyle/Kathleen E. Garrison (I) hold 2% of the vote. The gap between Kelly and Schmidt is less than 15,000 votes.
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This breaking news isn't exceptionally unique or special, but I wanted to include this brief to talk about managing the newsroom for election night.
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"All hands on deck" was a real role call, and assigning it all was a real push at the end. Sending reporters and photogs to watch parties, assigning reporters to tracking votes, setting our copy chief Kira up to manage social media updates and picking the two people to write briefs. I put myself at the head of the website as I had by far the most WordPress experience and we did not have a website manager yet.
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Worse case scenario happened hit in the middle of the action: our website crashed for half an hour because of our volume of posts. It did give everyone some much needed breathing room for a bit at least.
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I took us off the script for how our advisor planned us to run the website and social media for the night, and I believe it was the correct decision in the end. We had our two writers constantly pumping out number updates for races when results came in, and these excerpts were going up about once per minute. This made it much easier for Kira to access our social media manager and send out updates to our Twitter and Facebook.
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At the end of the night when Grace signed off on Wildcat 91.9, we had a nice hurrah moment with everyone left in the building. It was midnight, and it was a success. And then I woke up early the next day to write this, a nice cap to our busy election night.
ON-CAMPUS LIVING REQUIRED FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS STARTING NEXT SEMESTER
The Collegian; News Article w/ Lexi Liby | Vol 127 Issue 29; Friday, May 6, 2022 | Published on Web | KCM 2023 Honorable Mention in General News Writing
Incoming freshman Jenna Melton will pack her life into boxes, leave her hometown and arrive at the dorms to begin her first year of college next semester. However, the dorms were not her first choice.