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My Life Of A Small Town Journalism

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For many young journalists like myself, individuals aspire to be the writer behind the headlines of articles that are featured in the New York Times or Washington Post. Although many individuals read these newspapers with high circulation, 97 percent of the newspaper industry is made up of newspaper that have a circulation of less than 50,000 people (Edge).
“Local newspapers make up the bulk of the American newspaper ecosystem, yet they typically receive less attention from industry watchers than larger, better known outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times” (Ali, Radcliffe).
For me, I have always been drawn to small-town journalism. I had the opportunity to work at the Miami County Republic newspaper in summer 2017 where …show more content…

The University of Missouri was the school that Brian matriculated to after his high school graduation. Tiger blood was in his family, he said.
“I was kind of destined to go to MU,” he said, “my two brothers went to University of Missouri.”
Like at the University of Kansas, those that enroll at the University of Missouri have to apply to get into the journalism school. When Brian was accepted into the Mizzou J-School, he was assigned the education beat for the school newspaper, The Maneater.
Brian recalled one of his first feature writing assignments at the newspaper was following a cadet at the Wentworth Academy in Lexington, Missouri. He said although the assignment was off to a rocky start as he locked his keys in his car, this was an overall memorable and positive experience for him as he really learned how to put together a feature story with the help from his instructor. Not only did he grasp different ways to construct a lede within journalism, Brian discovered his love for story telling, which led him to his love for small-town journalism.
“To me, that’s what I love most about journalism: story telling,” he said. “There should be a story to tell … I always look forward to telling that story.”
Brian said he also remembers going to class at MU on 9/11 in 2001.
“I don’t remember specifically a lot of my days in college,” he said. “But I do remember those things.”
“I knew at that moment, that our country was

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