12/10/2019 0 Comments podcast Pals: Abbi and Elena
I interviewed Elena Ramirez for the podcast project on Monday afternoon in Kimpel Hall. Elena and I discussed her most recent data story, "Setting the Example: First Generation Students Raise the Bar", a look at how first generation debt at the University of Arkansas has increased while first generation enrollment has decreased. Elena's piece looks at a seldom discussed topic in an interesting and easy to understand way. Her interviews help give a face to a story filled with shocking numbers. Learning that one of her interviewees has $29,000 in debt when the UofA average is $14,000 for the first generation median debt was shocking.
Elena interviewed one college student, one high school student, one UA professor and two high school counselors. The chance to host a podcast was really fun, and after the initial nerves, was something I loved doing. It was a weird feeling going into the project but after we started talking, things just flowed and it went by so much quicker than I would have thought. At one point, I realized that we had been talking for five minutes and I was not recording. It was definitely a learning moment. I would totally do another podcast in the future!
Elena Ramirez is a junior studying journalism and political science. She focused a story about first-generation students with student loan debt. For the fall semester she focused her beat on DACA. Elena helps out on community podcast, District 3 podcast, and plans to pursue investigative journalism.
0 Comments
|
Abbi RossUniversity of Arkansas Journalism Student || Arkansas Traveler Reporter || Lemke Digital Media Lab Student Archives
December 2019
Categories |