About Me
My name is Maria Watson and this is my site! This site is being built as I’m learning how to build it in my digital journalism class. So, this is where you will see all of my assignments for the semester. I’m a journalism student finishing my last year at San Diego State. After this Fall, I will be graduating from the journalism program at state. When I first came to college I was an undecided major, then I declared journalism in Spring 2020, and now I’ve made it all the way to senior year. It was rewarding to complete the classes, and to explore a subject in a completely new way. What made me interested in journalism is the possibility of it. Then I became more interested while learning about what good journalism is and getting to learn about the skills that it takes to do that. I’ll be…
Final Project Essay
Synopsis This semester, I have been able to dive into storytelling and digital journalism more than ever before. In this class we’ve gone over the basics of finding information, how to look at raw data, and how to visualize it online. At the same time, we have also been practicing the journalism skills we’ve learned in previous classes by working on our stories for most of the semester. After these 18 weeks, I have learned so much more about organizing multimedia elements in order to tell a more effective news story. What challenged me the most throughout the semester was being able to balance all the layers of research and planning that go into creating a cohesive multimedia story. Now that everything is finished, I have a lot more confidence in my future projects because I’ve learned so much about myself, and how I work, during this process. Developing the…
Feature – 2022
San Diego Bikers By: Maria Watson Published: April 24, 2022 Story highlights In California, there are almost 1 million registered motorcycle owners according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. “People act around you the way you act around them,” says Trinidad. “I’ve had people flick cigarettes at me, or they box you in so you can’t get past us, I’ve had a guy open his door on me and he was laughing,” says Bino Avalos. SAN DIEGO–In California, there are almost 1 million registered motorcycle owners, and over 86,000 of them are registered in San Diego (PDF). Add a half million more owners, and that would be as many registered motorcycle owners as there are residents in America’s finest city. In San Diego, the mother chapter of the Black Sabbath Motorcycle Club hosted its “47/48th annual dance,” while also celebrating its retired President Trinidad. The mother capter was stated…
Discovery Project
For the discovery project in JMS 430, we are practicing social listening to discover what conversations are happening in certain communities. So, for this project, I decided to listen to the fanbase surrounding the competition reality TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (RPDR) because it is currently in the middle of airing season 14.