Opportunity

Recently I applied for an internship program for Honolulu Weekly and heard from the production editor on Tuesday. He like the photo portfolio I sent him, and he wanted me to come in for an interview. So yesterday I went to Honolulu Weekly for my interview and I was accepted as a photo intern. This will be a great opportunity to future my photography career I have done some freelance work with Midweek but it has been slow lately. So I will working at Honolulu Weekly doing production layout and whatever else they help with. And they will give me 2-3 photo assignments per week ranging from entertainment or local politics.

Life Changing Moments

Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with the children I met in Cambodia during the winter session. I called the teacher's cell phone Nita Smile who became one of my closest friends during my phone conversation with the teacher Nita put her cell phone on speaker phone. All the children greeted me and said "Hi Joana we miss you and love you". After the phone conversation, it had me thinking the time I spent in Cambodia while short has left a life long impression on me. It was the first time I felt that I had doing something either for myself and it made me humble.

The children of Palm Tree are either orphans or had been abandoned by their parents, they have done through of the most tragic moments any person could ever go through. But it still it did not take there smile and joy away from them. It put things in perspective for me that the problems I may have cannot compare to what they have gone through and yet they can still smile and give so much love to others at the darkest moments in their lives.

I would encourage anyone to do some sort of volunteer work when you help others. It can be the best decision  you can in your life. Now while I teaching children how to speak english, I learned more from them like how to be positive in any given situation and to believe in the good of humanity.

Rogue Journalism

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I really enjoyed watching this segment, it shows the direction online journalism is heading. But it also made me concerned about How Blogs can go off the deep-end. Gawker break all the rules of Journalism, they do not check their sources and report on rumors. But they do not stop there they take news articles from other news organization and make it their own. You would think the people working for this Blog sites would  have no sort of training in Journalism, but come to find out that some employees from the blog site have a master's degree in Journalism one in particular from Columbia University. Denton's empire is estimated to be worth $300 million dollars. 

Andrew Breitbeirt Well Known Blogger Dead at 43

One of the most controversial and conservative bloggers, Andrew Breibert died today. Known for posting the Weiner's twitter photo and was criticized for realeasing an edited and incomplete video of Sheirly Sherrod, a Department of Agriculture employee who gave a speech were she  supposedly discriminated against a white farmer,which led to her resignation,Breibert was also a fox news commentator 

Breibert was a founder of many blog websites such as Breibart.com, Big Hollywood.com, BigJournalism.com, and BigPeace.com

I may not agree with  Breibert politically but she served as an example on how bloggers could be taken seriously especially in the political arena .Breibert understood this and used blogging to voice the conservative tea 

party movement.

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