Hi guys, I'm about to go to internship for my last semester of J(ournalism) school. Over the past semester (Sept. to Dec.), myself and a few colleagues have been working on a basketball magazine all about the game in our home province, Ontario. It is called, OnBall magazine.</p> We've done everything from researching to writing to laying out the mag and it has taken up a big part of my life over the last few months (and a big reason I'm not online talking with ya'll as much as I'd like to).</p> I will be using this forum (the Raps) to host our online content (I figured even if only a few of you read it, it's better than a dreamweaver site I could make myself). It'll take me a few days to figure out how to lay it out nicely (we took lots of pictures to along with our stories) but I can't wait to share my hard work with you. Our editor was an editor from the Toronto Sun and was able to help us a lot along the way, so hopefully the stories are pretty close to being professional quality (I won't speak for other but the articles I wrote have been requested for further publication).</p> So here's what you'll see; -A new folder called OnBall go up over the next few days. I appreciate any views and comments that we can get because I sure it would make me look good to my editors that I secured an active web site to host our stuff. - The articles are about basketball in Ontario, so with that in mind we explored: Scholarships to American and Canadian schools, wheelchair basketball, the WNBA and Toronto, small town ball, basketball injuries, HoopDome and many, many of issues that affect the game in our province.</p> I hope you all enjoy it. We just shipped it to the printer and I'll get right on the online stuff.</p>
Wow, great job. I'm looking to get into Journalism at Ryerson, and become a Sports Journalist, can't wait to read your articles.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Master Shake)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Wow, great job. I'm looking to get into Journalism at Ryerson, and become a Sports Journalist, can't wait to read your articles.</p> </div></p> Awesome! It's good to hear that a fellow future scribe is out there in Raptor land. IT's busy man I can tell you.</p> Take Saturday for example. I was up at 6:30 a.m. to be at the Variety Village Rolling Rebels (Canadian wheelchair basketball champs) practice for eight (I wanted to get there early to check out the lighting for photography). Interviewed the coach and a couple of players before taking about 70 photos of practice before I had to leave just before nine to to all the way to Bolton On. to shoot the Santa Claus parade for a website. Back to my place in Toronto around three for a 4:30 p.m.deadline on the VV piece. Got to the school around 8 p.m. to work on the community newspaper we publish, home around 11 p.m.. And that was a Saturday with no class (actually for the last two years I haven't had class just "labs" where we write, shoot and publish our stuff). But I love it. I know I'll probably have to move someplace far and cold in order to get my start but hopefully it doesn't pay too badly and I can pay off a bit of this student debt!</p> I can promise you this; you will never have a shortage of stories to tell at diner. I can fill dead like no one else. People know it's going to be a good story when it starts out with "so I was at the hospital doing a story on a fund raises initiative when this old man came out with his gown on backwards and ..."</p> Cheers</p> </p> </p>
Wow, that is busy, sounds like your days a full. I'm starting to take classes in school, and co-op next year, but I have to find a place, I was thinking the Sun.</p> I'm sure you would have tons of stories, lol.</p>
