Adam Sacasa is a photojournalist with the Texarkana Gazette newspaper in Texarkana, Texas.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

Masters Degree?

I don't think I was every really thinking about getting a masters degree. On the Society of Professional Journalists trip to the Quad Cities, we were told not to get one. It makes sense because with newsrooms cutting staff and looking to cut costs so if they needed to pay someone with a masters or someone with a 4 year college degree, they'd just go cheap.

I need new ways to market myself as a journalist. A one for all type of thing but wait! That's not all! I did spend 2 years in exercise science so if a newsroom needs a personal trainer, they know where to go. Not only will it help the staff get in shape but also, cut down on health care costs. As ridiculous as it sounds, I'll still say it. Plus it would just give me an excuse to put all that otherwise useless schooling to work.

Seriously. Journalists need to find way to market themselves and be self promoters. Can't wait for someone else to do it.

In real news, the trial I've been waiting for for a few weeks was canceled. I'm still looking for info on the 2 football players that got arrested. Trial should be sometime this week. I'll ask again tomorrow.

Homecoming this weekend. Being the only one with a telephoto is rough. Got a lot of assignments to cover. Did do a voiceover with Ken, the sports editor. Might do my own next time. Ken needs a little more enthusiasm next time.



City Council was today at 7pm. Got video of the whole thing so I got to cut it down and do some voice overs.

Tomorrow, got a quick session with the guys from SGA for a video segment. Oh yeah, police briefing at 8:45am so I better get to bed.

Adios.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

medianess

Multimedia is something every journalist has to learn. It won't cut it to just know how to write or just take pictures or just shoot video. If there's another medium out there, chances are I'll be learning it in the next few months.

Just happened to see an ambulance over at Everly Park so I went and made a project out of it. Started editing yesterday and finished today. With pictures, it's so easy to edit and SO much quicker. Making a multimedia piece on some spot news on the other hand, takes a lot longer.

One thing I've been reading is to edit as you shoot. For the most part, all the video and photos are in chronological order anyways so if I can narrow it down to only the things I'll want to use, it'll be a huge time saver.

Live video was a failure because they meet every other week now. Something about that doesn't seem right but I won't get into that right now.

Media. It's the future. Now I just need to get back to writing.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Live streaming coming soon...

Finally have a place to put this video up. At the job fair, a guy mentioned a website for live streaming. I'll be trying it out tomorrow at the Student Government Association meeting at 7pm. It'll be live so check it out if you like. I won't be doing much since I'll probably be in the office editing (production night ever Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday). Need to start promoting it to the students.


Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Still learning

Headed over to a TV station and newspaper over in the Quad Cities. Really wish I had done that before. People over there were really helpful. I got some video and took a few pics so I'll try to get those up maybe this week. Tried to get those business cards out to a few people too. Hopefully, I got a few contacts. While we were out there, heard about how horrible the market for journalists are right now. Luckily, I follow the news and hear about all the job cuts. It's going to be difficult when I graduate in the Spring. Just hope for the best and keep working.

There was a soccer game today at 4pm while we were in the Quad Cities. I sure hope that was taken care of back here. We only have 1 camera here at the paper and only one of my photographers has a camera and it's the IT department's camera.

As for football, probably not traveling this weekend. They'll be in North Dakota but I'll be at a job fair in Springfield tomorrow and back Friday. I just need to print out a few resume's and maybe a few pics while I'm at it.

I found out some campus news, big news, at the morning crime brief last week at the station. Really wanted to report it but it just doesn't seem timely anymore. Also found out the next court trial in Macomb is on October 20th at 9:30am. I have no idea what it's about but I'll try to make it.

Friday, October 03, 2008

Missouri State trip

Over in Missouri this weekend. No plane, just a bus from 8:30am till around 3pm. We did take a break over in Jefferson City for Subway. There's three busses this trip and since they only took 2 to the stadium, Ken and I stayed back here in the hotel instead of going to the pregame stuff.

Just been in the hotel since we've been here. Out the window, I can see a Walmart so I'll probably head there later. Right now, watching game 2 of the ALDS, sox vs. Rays. After this, grab some food, maybe Steak and Shake, and then get this podcast going. I'll try to get that up tonight. I should start looking for content.

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writer/photojournalist. Mostly the later.