Welcome to Bears Abroad

I created this blog to jump start my experience in the industry and develop my abilities in the cross between blogging and journalism. I have always been open to new methods of offering information and admit I am somewhat behind in the realm of blogging. Nonetheless, I am here to catch up.

As a senior at the University of Northern Colorado, I have nearly completed my degree in journalism and mass communications with a news-editorial emphasis. The first journalism course I was enrolled in was Visual Journalism with Gary Swanson. The class began just as professor Swanson had returned from covering the Olympic Games in China. This course elevated my interest in travel writing and photo journalism.

Over the past year, I have been working as a editor and reporter for the UNC Mirror student newspaper, beginning as a co-A&E editor and currently as a copy editor. I will be traveling to Greece this coming summer with a communications group from UNC and will continue blogging during my time abroad.

In covering the UNC Center for International Education as my beat, I hope to thoroughly prep myself for my own journey abroad while informing and updating the UNC community about important issues and interests concerning areas to which UNC has study abroad programs. As an arts and entertainment reporter, I have largely covered the music program at UNC and have received excellent feedback from its members. However, covering CIE will be the heftiest beat I have taken on as of yet.

I am very passionate about my writing endeavors. My writing is generally kept simple so as not to have it bogged down with unnecessary commentary, but I still manage to throw in some pizazz. I also tend to stress about the thoroughness of my reporting, which may seem like a weakness, but will ultimately amount to one of my biggest strengths.

The burden of consistent blogging carries an air of overwhelming necessity, but I also see it as a new and invaluable step in the growth toward my goals as a travel writer and photo journalist. I will learn that their is a much broader scope to the field of journalism as well as the world in general.