Year in Review 2023-2024
These Year in Review blurbs were used to create “Year in Review” pages that our customers could add to their yearbooks. Most of our clients design yearbooks for elementary schools, so our focus was to encapsulate the previous year while remaining as factual and unbiased as possible.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2022-2023
These Year in Review blurbs were used to create “Year in Review” pages that our customers could add to their yearbooks. Most of our clients design yearbooks for elementary schools, so our focus was to encapsulate the previous year while remaining as factual and unbiased as possible. News/Politics Historic overturn In June 2022, in a decision for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Supreme Court of the United States voted 6-3 to overturn a decision from Roe v. Wade which provided a constitutional right to abortion. Initially, the decision was leaked before it was made official, a rare break in the strict confidentiality within the highest court in the country. The decision sparked protests and state legislation across the nation. Titan of journalism Barbara Walters, a broadcast journalist who was the first woman to co-anchor an evening network news program, died on Dec. 30, 2022. Walters was best known for…
The next wave of entrepreneurs will be much more diverse, despite the odds
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA–In Santa Ana, one Latino entrepreneur founded a newsletter for people and businesses all over Orange County that still runs today. Ruben Alvarez was the CEO of the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce around the same time that he started his newsletter “Stay Connected OC” in early 2000. “I started on a shoestring, I didn’t have money. I had to hustle, I had to figure out the system, so that goes to my ingenuity more than anything else.” Alvarez said. E-publisher Alvarez started “Stay Connected OC” from a base of 500 to 700 people when email was first becoming a thing. Now, 9.2 million emails later, Alvarez has 20,000 readers. For Alvarez, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was where he brushed elbows with the U.S. Small Business Association, the Small Business Development Center of Santa Ana, and dozens of other regional organizations. There, he led programs that were,…
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…
Investigative Story
More shelters and solutions needed throughout East County El Cajon has more shelter beds available per capita than any other city in the county, according to the City Manager, Graham Mitchell. “Even more than San Diego,” Mitchell said over the phone. Regional task force data shows that neighboring cities–La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Santee–have hosted homeless populations a fraction of size of El Cajon’s for almost a decade. The biggest tally of people experiencing homelessness in the other cities was in Lemon Grove in 2017. It counted for 13.4% of the total homeless population in El Cajon that year. In the same reports, from 2017 to 2020, the city of San Diego’s total homeless population decreased by 13%. In the same time, El Cajon’s homeless population grew by nearly 100%. On its website, El Cajon says it has spent over $2.8 million in direct services to people experiencing homelessness, but…
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.