Continuing a Green Discussion

This is my last post for my journalism blogging class, so I will use it to reflect on my experience of blogging so far. I think blogging is a very unique platform to the internet. It is writing with more possibilities and I really enjoyed that.

Doing this was enjoyable because I was able to use this conversational tone and still discuss important issues. I felt like doing this blog has also made me even more environmentally aware and I now feel informed enough to discuss these issues more often

Blogging is a great way to tell stories. I think newspapers are struggling because they are trying to tell modern stories through an outdated format. Blogging is that modern platform on which to tell modern stories.

The frequency of posts is something I don’t really like in blogging, though I understand the need to do so. There is definitely a need for quantity over quality on the internet. I wish I could provide more quality articles at a slower pace. I don’t think the blogging world can really accommodate that though.

I liked the self-direction that blogging allows. I enjoyed choosing my own topic, stories and formats to do things. Being in charge of myself was actually very freeing in that way.

In reference to my journalism blogging class itself, I like that we had to produced three stories a week and that we also had to comment on each other’s blogs. The deadlines made me write a lot more blog posts than I ever have before and the comments made me think of my posts in different ways.

At the same time, three blog posts did feel like a lot and it goes back to that quality versus quantity thing. I felt like most of my blog posts were good, but none of them were great. With news and writing, that compromise must be struck but that was something I didn’t like about the class.

Before taking this class, I wish I had known just had much work went into making three blog posts. I would often put them off until the day they were due and that definitely weakened the quality of the stories as well. I wish I had though to pace out the posts a bit more.

I will definitely keep blogging because I feel like it both fits the style of writing that I most enjoy and challenges me as a writer and journalist. I haven’t decided if I will keep blogging on this beat or choose another.

I like this beat because it’s something I’m passionate about, but continuing to write on it depends on time and topic. I would definitely have to shift the topic to more Colorado-centric policies since I’m not in England anymore. My number of posts might have to go down, but I would like to continue on this beat.