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Practicum
For my second to last final week, I am doing more research. I sound like a broken record, but everything will not start to takeoff until...
Dontae Washington
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Practicum
For my final week, I just did some more research for my big story. I had no idea how much time I had to invest in making the...
Dontae Washington
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Practicum
As we are prepared to wrap up the semester I am working behind the scenes for my two semester-long story project. I have been lining up...
Dontae Washington
Dec 4, 20221 min read
Practicum
This week was a lite week as I had nothing much to do. However, we spent sometime preparing for one of the busiest weeks of the year as...
Dontae Washington
Nov 7, 20221 min read
Practicum
This week I attended the weekly meeting and started my first of two CMI stories this week. The first story will be about the construction...
Dontae Washington
Oct 30, 20221 min read
Practicum Week 3
This week was very light. I did some interviews for my boost story, but my main focus is on my big story for the semester. It involved...
Dontae Washington
Oct 10, 20221 min read
Practicum Week 2
For this week I did a lot of research on my financial piece. This story will be a semester-long project involving time and planning. In...
Dontae Washington
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Week 6
This week I was really busy. I attended a combination of Pride Nights and Juneteenth events. First, I attended PNC Park's Pride Night I...
Dontae Washington
Jun 20, 20221 min read
Week 5
This week I finished up my Pride, World Square, and Comedy bus stories. I have been on the move a lot lately covering events. In addition...
Dontae Washington
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Week 4
This week I had three more stories posted on the Pittsburgh City Paper's website. I also attended Pride events in both Bloomfield and...
Dontae Washington
Jun 6, 20221 min read
Week 3
This week I finished up a couple of articles. The first article was about what to do on Juneteenth in Pittsburgh. The second article was...
Dontae Washington
May 30, 20221 min read
Week 2
Things are starting to pick up. This week I saw my second and third stories get published online. I had various meetings with my editor...
Dontae Washington
May 22, 20221 min read
Week 1
This week I met with my editor as well as the staff at the Pittsburgh City paper. I completed an intro about myself and sat in a couple...
Dontae Washington
May 16, 20221 min read
Week 10
During the final week of my internship, I was tasked with making an alumni Newsletter for the 2021 West Mifflin Area School District...
Dontae Washington
May 2, 20221 min read
Week 9
This week I had to get everything ready for the alumni board meeting on April 14th. I had to make folders that would include a program,...
Dontae Washington
Apr 18, 20221 min read
Week 8
This week I made my final edits to the West Mifflin Spring Newsletter. I was also tasked with making information folders for Alumni board...
Dontae Washington
Apr 10, 20221 min read
Week 7
This week we met to create an official itinerary for the Alumni meeting. After that, I interviewed staff so that I can make a news story...
Dontae Washington
Apr 3, 20221 min read
Week 6
This week I had multilpe meetgings. The first meeting was between me, the West Mifflin Middle school's dean of students, and the...
Dontae Washington
Mar 27, 20221 min read
Week 5
This week I met with the Superintendent to discuss the responses from the Alumni form. I was also had multiple meetings with the...
Dontae Washington
Mar 20, 20221 min read
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