Hiya! I’m Laura Keeley, Duke senior and journalist extraordinaire. I’m currently in a Madonna-like reinvention phase—the old
Hard at work (and eating my hand) at Poynter. Photo credit Al Tompkins.
Laura was great, but the new one will be even better!
What I mean to say is, before my two-week fellowship at The Poynter Institute, my journalistic interests and strengths primarily involved writing. I’m an artist, and I paint pictures with words. Now, that is still true, but I want to get more involved with all aspects of journalism—audio and video production,graphics, photography and web design, to name a few. Check out my first (real) website and multimedia adventure, Skyway Jack’s.
In this spirit of reinvention, this blog was born.
I plan on writing about my adventures into the nebulous world of multimedia journalism and on the issues facing the press, both student and professional. I’ll leave my sports blogging for The (Duke) Chronicle’s sports blog (I’m the sports features editor for the upcoming school year) and my business reporting for Bloomberg News (I’ll be starting my internship there next Monday).
I reserve the right to publish posts on other interesting topics as well.
In the next couple of days, I’ll have the site running at full speed. For now, I will add pieces as I figure out what works best. I could not have gotten this far (don’t laugh) without the help of my “fellow” Poynter College Fellow Emily Ingram, and her amazing How to Build a Portfolio Web Site blog series. She’s an online goddess (and current Washington Post web producing intern).
As a parting present (and to inspire myself to pick up a camera), I’ll end each blog post with a picture I took from abroad. Journalism is my main passion, but traveling is a close second (with sports a close third). I studied abroad at the University of Oxford (England) summer 2009 and in Madrid fall 2010. This one is of the entrance to the Parque Grüell in Barcelona, which was designed by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. Click to see it in its full-sized glory.
