Food for the Heart and the Heroes

Businesses all over Newport are rising to the challenge and battling the Coronavirus with small acts of kindness and food. This assignment helped me learn the importance of writing for the ear rather than the eye. I also got to work with formatting my soundbites and leads. In my earlier work I struggled to introduce […]

What You Need to Know in Today’s News

Seahawk News broadcasts a little recap on what is important in the world today. This piece demonstrates my ability to write for a viewing audience by selecting the top news stories and relating them in a script for video broadcast. While working on this piece I learned how to format my writing into the two […]

Free Tacos for Frontline Heroes

A local Newport business is offering a ray of light in these dark times, and it comes in the form of a taco. Contact: Addison Timmermann Public Relations Coordinator 781-987-4355 (cell) addison.timmermann@salve.edu (email) April 28, 2020 For Immediate Release Free tacos! Now that I have your attention, yes, it’s true. Paco’s Tacos in Newport is offering free tacos to […]

Students Make Crafts on Campus and Enjoy Kraft Macaroni

Salve Regina students gathered together to participate in crafts and a macaroni and cheese bar. With this assignment, I learned how to gather information from others through interviews. I had to step outside of my comfort zone and go up to people and ask if they wouldn’t mind being recorded. In my writing I was […]

The Coronavirus: Crushing College Dreams

The Coronavirus has interrupted Spring 2020 classes and sent many students home from their study abroad adventures. This assignment allowed me to use my reporting skills to cover a newsworthy event happening in the world. I used the interviews that I conducted to tell a story for a listening audience through Audacity. I learned the […]

Amid Crisis, Newport Eateries Give Back

Newport Restaurants are doing their part in the community by donating food to frontline workers. Through this final assignment, I discovered the importance of clear writing and proper attributions to my sources. I was able to get my point across in my own words and add imbedded sources that only made my piece stronger. Newport […]

Trade Reaction

Tom Brady left the New England Patriots and fans are going wild. Through this assignment, I learned how to embed my links properly so that they actually showed up in my piece instead of just being hyperlinks. I also learned the importance of gathering information from multiple sources. This piece demonstrated my ability to write […]