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Journalism
It's all about that primal human hunger for a story that transports you, but it's not fiction. It's about what any child asks for: Tell me a Story.
When I returned to college, to finally finish my degree, I discovered that journalism made sense to me. Facts grab my attention more than a spun yarn. That's the best way to start or build a story.
The artistic or creative, the political, and current events interest me. The arts have long interested me. I'm about telling stories, whether they're geared toward listeners, readers or the more visually-minded.
The truth cannot be beat; as we all know, it's stranger than fiction. It helps us to make sense of what is often a banal or bizarre daily experience － life. But under journalism these stories are fact. They are verified. No matter whether it's on the radio, multimedia or, the "printed" word (on paper or the web).
That's why I usually talk about...Storytelling.
Reliable. Enterprising. Bold.
Storytelling is also used as a code for the hard, topical feature stories that I feel compelled to pursue. You could call my ideal form literary journalism. Most of my experience is in filing stories that take 3:00-minutes or more. When I watch evening newscasts, the feature stories are the ones that often engage me.
I think my stories attract people who enjoy listening to and learning about ideas that rarely receive mainstream news headlines.