Burlington residents share opinions on Bailout Bill

By Emily Silva
In attempt to get the United States out of the current financial crisis, the Bush administration is asking Congress to pass what is called the Bailout Bill – a $700 billion plan going toward helping the financial firms out of debt.
Burlington, N.C. residents are especially concerned about their financial standing. Some are very opposed [...]

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Country star Chuck Wicks performs at Burlington Carousel Festival

By Emily Silva
September 21, 2008
 
 
Burlington City Park was buzzing with excitement Sunday.
 
 Children scurried through the crowds, giggling with one another over their just-painted faces. Hot dogs, hamburgers, barbeque sandwiches, funnel cakes and ice cream – the staples of any outdoor southern party – were vended to the masses by high school students in tents.
 
 At one [...]

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Local Reporting and Beats

By Emily Silva
 
 
September 22, 2008
                         
“The most important thing in the story,” wrote Thomas Boswell, “Is finding the central idea. It’s one thing to be given a topic, but you have to find the idea or the concept within that topic.”
 
Local reporting and beats are really about whom you’re with and where you are. Journalists [...]

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The Profile and Feature Story

By Emily Silva
 
September 16, 2008
 
Profile and feature stories are a way for reporters to communicate a news story in a softer manner than regular hard news. Language is the major distinction between hard-news reporting and profile and feature stories, as well. For hard news, the word choice is more staccato and compact. The writer’s goal [...]

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Duke Energy president visits Elon University

 

 
By Emily Silva
September 9, 2008
On Tuesday evening Ellen Ruff, president of Duke Energy Carolinas, spoke to Elon students and faculty about alternative energy sources, efficiency and Duke’s plans for the future.
“None of these are short-term issues,” she said.
“Sustainability is an issue that’s becoming increasingly important in the corporate world. Sometimes, we at the power company [...]

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Internet glitch halts friend communication

 
By Emily Silva
September 10, 2008
 
I’ve grown up in a world where the Internet is everyone’s lifeline. I check my email and Facebook account an average of 30 times a day and there isn’t a homework assignment I don’t use Google for – in some way. 
My generation has been bred for speed. The Internet’s ability to [...]

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Business Reporting and Explanatory Journalism

By Emily Silva
 
September 9, 2008
 
The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism has been awarded each year since 1998. After reading the two examples of this form of writing in Roy Peter Clark and Christopher Scanlan’s America’s Best Newspaper Writing and searching online for other examples, it has become apparent that explanatory journalism is, at its most [...]

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Improvements to Elon community discussed at town meeting

By Emily Silva
September 2, 2008
 
 
 

Two new additions to the Elon community were discussed at the Board of Aldermen agenda-setting meeting Tuesday night. One of them is the building of a community library, which was proposed at a previous meeting and has been in the workings for some time now. 
“We are looking at something that really [...]

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Welcome

By Emily Silva
September 4, 2008
Although I have always been interested in different forms of communication, blogging never really caught my attention. People have always suggested I start one, just to keep track of my thoughts concerning various subjects, but I never did. Jotting down notes in a journal always seemed more of my niche.
My name is [...]

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