Bureau Reporting: what I learned

It is amazing just to be able to go out and see what college students come up with on a spur of the moment interview. Sometimes it is very intelligent and other times well not so much on the intelligence. But it was helpful to understand how to do Bureau Reporting by getting out and asking people.
First of all, it got us out of an underground dungeon and out into the sunlight during class even for just a little bit to go out and talk with our peers about how finding money for college is important and sometimes difficult to acquire because of certain channels that a person has to go through. This time was important as well since I myself have never done anything like this before, so it was a big step out of my comfort zone, but it was needed because sometimes I stick too close to who I know and not so much branch out.

Most of the people that we asked when we reported were open and willing to be reported and quoted for the blog, which was cool. It showed to me that Biola students have one, become accustomed to being interviewed, and two, they know that their fellow peers will not say anything that will put them in a bad light.

At the end of the day, Bureau Reporting is a fun exciting way to be able to do more than just sitting in the office; it gets people out into the field and live in the moment of everything happening at that time. I would like to do this again, if possible, because I found this more entertaining that just waiting for something to happen, I was going out and getting the news before it happened.

Biola University Journalism department
http://www.biola.edu/academics/undergrad/journalism/