Temporary Location

Anyone who knows me has probably heard me talk about my internship with the Philadelphia Inquirer, because I have a big mouth and that's what I do.

If I don't know you, and haven't told you about it, let me explain what is going on right now. The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the entire newspaper industry, is suffering. No one knows how to make money off of Journalism right now and if you can't make money off the news, you can't pay to report the news. That is a scary idea, but the news industry isn't dying. It is evolving.

One of the Philadelphia Inquirer's ideas to change with the times is a student run website to be called Student Union 34. The 34 stands for the 34 colleges in the Philadelphia area. The idea is each college has a news page on the site, and a news team of about 6 to 8 student journalists from that college running it. Each student journalist has a lot of freedom to write on a subject they pitched and had approved by the editors of the Inquirer. The blog I pitched was one about poverty in North Philadelphia. An obvious issue without enough coverage.

I'm not exactly sure what is going on right now. I assume that they are working to get Student Union 34 ready, but their work at the Philadelphia Inquirer is their main priority, so it's taking some time.

I am taking this blog very seriously and didn't want to wait. My plan had been to get the ball rolling this summer, so now I'm going to start this blog, which was supposed to be on SU34, and when SU34 is ready I'll simply transfer my posts to it.

This is in other words a temporary location until the SU34 site is ready. I'm going to post weekly. I'm hoping that people will begin to read the blog here, and then when Su 34 is ready they will follow it onto that site. 

So yeah, keep reading.