Senior spring, I started writing news stories in addition to my commentaries. It was a lot of work, and I can't say I liked doing all the interviews it required. But it was a very valuable experience, and made me feel like I was really contributing to the paper.
Over the summer, I worked at National Geographic News, and wrote a few stories there as well. Then I took to picking up some of the slack at The Scarlet. I later worked as a copy editor for the Casa Grande Dispatch, but that did not involve writing anything longer than a pullout box.
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10 April 2003
When I arrived at the office, Scott told me, "Stef wants you to do a Webshots of that site you like."
3 April 2003
27 February 2003
During intermission at Clarkstock, Josie asked me what I thought of one of the early acts (which she had missed). I said they were good. She told me they may need my help writing the article about it, so I said I ought to think of something more intelligent to say than "they were good." When I arrived at the office that week, Cara said, "hey Stenny, I need to ask you a big favor. Can you write 500 words about Clarkstock?"
12 December 2002
14 November 2002
14 November 2002
A review of The Whitlams' album Torch The Moon.
15 August 2002
This story got huge pickup by AOL.
31 July 2002
11 July 2002
I'm glad to hear someone prominent bashing farm subsidies. Now if only he had the power to do something about it.
9 July 2002
This is a rewritten press release with some extra info pulled in. But I think it came out rather well given the circumstances.
25 June 2002
Laura Lewis wrote the story, but I took all the photos in the photo gallery.
20 June 2002
This is blatantly promotional, but I think he had some interesting things to say. He's a nice guy, too.
20 June 2002
Another rewritten press release.
14 June 2002
I originally didn't want to do this because it seemed too cheesy -- a seahorse story for father's day -- but it was NG News's first submission to the New York Times syndicate.
10 June 2002
A promotional piece for a National Geographic Channel documentary on the Kabul Zoo.
5 June 2002
A promotional piece for a National Geographic Channel documentary on Colombia's children. There isn't much "news" in this, but I thought it would be nice to have a context piece about the war.
5 June 2002
This was basically a rewritten UN press release, but it got huge pickup.
22 May 2002
I wrote the long captions for the photo essay that ran with this and the other four Shark Week stories.
22 May 2002
Written in my second day on the job.
19 April 2002
12 April 2002
5 April 2002
29 March 2002
I am amused that the background photo for the fact box was of a bunch of alcohol bottles we have in the office.
8 March 2002
1 March 2002
I really didn't expect this to be the top story, but it was a real slow news week. At least it got a doo-dah headline.
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22 February 2002
22 February 2002
I wrote this as a kind of pennance for my Editorial the previous week.
15 February 2002
8 February 2002
8 February 2002
1 February 2002
I volunteered to do this article just so I'd have an excuse to go to the lecture.
1 February 2002
Nepotism kicks into high gear.
25 January 2002
My first contribution to the news section was kind of accidental. I had to rewrite a substantial portion of Andrea Suarez Falken's article, so I got co-author credit.
25 January 2002
I volunteered this CD review because I knew Features was short on stories. I never expected it to be their top story, or for Chapski and Zinman to spend a solid hour laughing at my use of the word "whomp."
Graphic created to illustrate "Far From Thy Valley: Colgate Students Abroad Face Tragedy Far From Home" by Martin Bair (with correction)
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