Spot News Experience

For EL227, we were to cover one of four events happening at SHU. The football game, opening of the DeChantal Hall, Opening Liturgy, or the Honors Convocation. I chose the honors convocation because, well, it ws the only one I was able to attend!

Now I, being an Arts & Entertainment writer for The Setonian, was a bit scared to do a spot news article.

I attended the convocation, observed very closely, and frantically scribbled quotes and happenings during the convocations. I was honestly nervous at that point how my article would turn out.

I was pleased, once I planned the story out, how well my article turned out. After The Setonian came out on the stands, I was excited to see the articles were relativly similar.

The quotes were clearly different, but the information was almost exactly the same, as well as the tone of the article.

This assignment gave me experience, and a little bit of confidence- and I don't think I'm going to be so nervous next time around.