MULTIMEDIA
Though my journey into journalism began with reporting, I soon learned text alone can't carry a story. So, I began picking up on skills that would supplement my writing visually and interactively.
Though I've designed for about as long as I've written stories, I find myself learning new things each time I'm assigned to design a newspaper page or online graphic.
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After having photographed everything from sold-out concerts to an election, I've learned taking photos can be just as fun — or sometimes even more fun — than writing the story they go with.
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One of my biggest goals of the past year has been to increase my use and Mill Valley News' use of social media as a tool to both report on news and promote online content.
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Making videos allows me to put everything I've learned about journalism together: interviewing sources, writing stories, composing shots and creating something visually appealing.
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