Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 10:59
Section: Journalism
It looks like a second story of mine is going to get the People Magazine treatment.
The first was the Delgadillo family, who got sort of engulfed in a media wave in early 2007, following my story on them in December 2006. It was compelling stuff, with one child taking care of the rest of her family while both parents were in Iraq, but there were numerous TV shows, People Magazine and who knows what else that came calling, and I suspect they may have gotten a bit overwhelmed with all the attention.
People Magazine called the office Monday, looking for contacts related to another story of mine. People’s year-end issue is doing a special article on fallen heroes, and they want to talk to the family of the late Sgt. James K. Healy about his story. I certainly found his story compelling, and I think he’s a good subject for this sort of piece. Too often, fallen soldiers are forgotten about after a single news cycle, and I think it’s nice when that doesn’t happen.
Forget the presidential election: The really big news is that the next World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, comes out on Thursday. In a second, I’m going to show you the opening cinematic for the expansion.
But before I do that, watch the following one first. It takes place five years earlier, and is the end of the human storyline in Warcraft III. Arthas Menethil, Prince of Lordaeron, has discovered what’s been causing the undead to rise in his country, and has journeyed to Northrend, the setting for Wrath of the Lich King, to end the threat once and for all. He returns a changed man …
Four years later, the transformation is complete: Arthas Menethil is the Lich King, ruler of the Undead Scourge.
Monday, November 10, 2008, 17:06
Section: Journalism
High school kids want to know about money, and that’s almost it.
Middle school kids want gross stories. If you have seen dead bodies on the job (I’ve seen two), tell them about it.
Elementary school kids want to know about your pets. I’m not sure how my cats and (shockingly) unnamed cats contribute to journalism, but apparently they do.
I was only a year or two older, at most, when my first newspaper article was published in the student newspaper of the American International School in Vienna, than the kids I talked to today. We’ll see if any of the kids I talked to today at Joshua Circle Elementary School end up going into journalism. There’s not banking industry money, but there are dead bodies.
