Again, with the basketball team's not starting until Novemeber, I have yet to do any "advanced reporting." That means that the goals assignment is about the extent of my journalism experience for the week!
The assignment was due on Monday and I turned mine in on Sunday. Only problem: I forgot Greg doesn't work on either of those days. He doesn't come in until late on Tuesday, so the first time I got to sit down with him was on Wednesday, two days after it was due. Not only that, but I (along with I think four other people meeting with Greg that day) failed! I couldn't even come up with goals for myself! The problem with all of our goals is that they weren't specific enough. Greg wanted goals that we could look at in three months and determine if they were met. Therefore, something like "I want to write good stories" didn't cut it, it had to be something more along the lines of "I want to write a feature story on the team's strength coach."
So he sent us away to redo our goals. I thought at least two of mine were specific enough, they just weren't worded specific enough on my assignment. In the end, I basically came up with: I want to break a story, I want to write sports and sports news stories, I want to take too much play-by-play out of my deadline stories and I want to write with more of a voice in my stories (and Greg better not say that last one is too vague because somebody in class had the exact same idea and Tom liked it!)
So with my new, quantitative goals in hand, I will be meeting with Greg today for round two. Wish me luck!
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