First Interview as a Journalism Student

Today during lunch, I conducted my absolute first interview as a student in Hercules Middle High School. Yeah, I may have had class interviews, or random interviews with classmates as an exercise in Brown's class, but never have I actually interviewed to gather information to write an article and submit it to the editors. For this, I will say that I am not the best reporter, but I will hopefully have decent skills in interviewing and reporting.

The person I interviewed was the editor for the Hercules Middle School journalism class. What I do regret about the interview is that I completely forgot to record the conversation despite having permission from her to record the conversation. Likewise, I forgot to bring my set of questions to ask. Lastly, I feel bad for disappointing Mrs. Dirk, the middle school journalism and English teacher, because the article I am writing most likely will not be published in the real newspaper.

However the article turns out, I will be glad that I got this opportunity. I unfortunately had to skip the KIWIN'S meeting to conduct the interview during lunch - with the dreaded excuse that the article is due tomorrow.