Where exactly am I going?

So as I have progressed in my Journalism 101 class and worked for the Sagebrush for a while, I have gradually realized that the news media, and more specifically the newspaper industry, is in a period of rapid and defining change.

With the evolution of new technologies and the speed at which information is transferred, many have declared newspapers as dead. In fact, broadcast stations, cable news networks and even to a comparable degree internet news compilers are dead as well. What is now being created in their place are news outlets, in the very broadest sense of the term. TV stations and newspapers are no longer just TV stations or newspapers any more than phone companies are just land line providers. Communications have evolved, and are continuing to do so at a rapid pace. The news media, up until recently, had failed to keep up. They are paying the price, but are also deep in the process of catching up.

The delivery of news is changing to second-by-second updates and alerts, a far cry from the morning and evening papers of our parents' generations. While nobody in the industry seems to know exactly what form this evolution will take, it seems to be a common consensus that the next generation of journalists, of which I am a part, will be the ones to solve this problem.

I'm excited.

So there's that...

HOLY SHIT!!!

ONE OF MY STORIES IS ON CBSNEWS.COM!!!
hahahaha! I'm so happy!!!
Click here to read!

Dear Blog...I have returned, and this time, I bring a real post.

I know, it's weird. I'm actually going to start blogging again. It may seem as though I had forgotten you old friend. For a short time, you were my only dabble in public writing. Now, every week, I write articles that are published in a real newspaper and read by, quite literally, thousands of people. And while I have been busy, honing my skills as a journalist and learning the ins and outs of the newspaper business, you have always been in the back of my mind. I always tell myself, around two in the morning on a Monday somewhere between checking jumps on A4 and wondering how the hell we missed deadline again, that I will someday get my life organized to the point that I can again post at least a weekly message. Well, that time is here.
I'm sure you're asking yourself why I would have committed myself to something that would tear me from your loving jumble of semi-generic HTML code. Allow me to explain. I am getting a chance that most people don't ever get. I am not only involved with something much more successful and respected than myself, but I am getting a taste of my career while I still have the opportunity to change it. And change it I never shall.
All doubt that may have lain in the corners of my mind that I may want to do anything else with my life has been erased by my experience with the Sagebrush. I get to talk to people as different as a homeless man living in a tent in downtown Reno next to the train trench, to the mayor of that same city in his 15th floor corner office for the same story. Every week I get to learn something new, with topics ranging from third-party political volunteers to budget crises facing UNR.
I am stressed out for at least an hour or two every day, but I wouldn't trade the fast paced nature of my job for anything. I love what I'm doing even before I am out of college. I cannot imagine a time in my life I will not enjoy going to work, and that is something most people take a lifetime to find. And here I am, 19 and I've already found it.
Lucky me. Lucky me.
So there's that...