Hardcore work

I noticed that I haven't wrote any posts last week, so I'll let you know what happened.

My soundslides story on the CARE program is due in a week. The CARE program is a special aid organization which helps single parents on welfare.

I had a tough time scheduling all my interviews with my partner. On Sept. 27, Lucy Guanuna was too busy. She didn't call me until an hour before our interview. She didn't tell me where we were scheduled to meet for the interview.

After a few phone calls, we somehow managed to schedule an interview at the CARE program on Thursday. The interviews went surprisingly well, even though the recorder kept catching all the noise from my fiddling around.

Since I'm pretty inexperienced at broadcast journalism editing, I spent nearly four hours editing the interviews we took. After all that time, I realized that there's no way I could use all of this stuff in a two-minute soundslide. It's much easier for me to cut out the parts that are most important.

On Wednesday, I'll head out with Lucy to interview a single parent who often visits the CARE Program Center. I think it's a good idea to interview people who haven't had a big success story, like most of the workers in the CARE Program Center. Besides, this interview might shed some light on the struggles of single parents today.