So I am posting this in bed from my (relatively) new Droid phone. It’s 12:21 a.m. I’m officially done with Rockbridge Report preparations for the show tomorrow. I should go to bed.
But the producer in me – the journalist in me – won’t shut off.
I keep thinking about all the big news headlines this sleepy little mountain town keeps churning out – school budget crises, drug busts, burglary problems, controversial noise ordinances, and of course we can’t forget our new Lexington police chief.
There’s such a desire to make it “big” in the news biz – to report on the national and international stories that impact the largest audiences. And for good reason – those are the stories that keep the job interesting, dynamic and challenging. But now more than ever I’ve been experiencing first-hand how local news coverage matters just as much. Need proof? Just check out the emotion that charges everything the school board members are saying right now.
Nerdy as it may be for a college senior to be blogging on her smartphone about how much she loves the news biz, that’s exactly what I want to be doing.
That’s exactly what producing the only local news station has made me want to be doing when I really should be catching some Z’s….err…I mean, partying.
