When I was little, I was determined to be an actress. I loved the idea of pretending to be something I wasn’t—even if it was only for a little while. I could be mean, without the guilty conscience. I could be bad, without the punishment. Somewhere along the way—maybe when I was given the role of Augustus Gloop, the chocolate lover in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in our mandatory fourth grade play or when all 7th graders had to perform schoolhouse rock and I was the planet Venus—reality set in. I changed my goal, deciding to be a traditional newspaper reporter. However, in almost every journalism class I have taken, I hear the whispered rumors that “print is dying.” I don’t really believe it, but I do think journalism is changing drastically; multimedia is now the name of the game. It definitely takes a different skill set to publish news videos on the Web, but I feel that these skills have now become mandatory. I don’t have any prior experience—hell, I barely know how to use excel. It will definitely be a challenge learning all the different facets of audio, video and photography and applying them as a journalist. It’s another way of telling a story and one that I feel requires a different frame of mind. Now more than ever, if I want a job as a journalist, I’ll have to be adept in all multimedia areas.
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