Having Amy Novak as a guest speaker in my Writing for New Media class last Wednesday was definitely worthwhile. Her insight to the journalism field, as well as difficulties with running a small team with huge projects really put things into perspective for me. This area of expertise defiantly requires hard work and a lot of it.

It was pretty funny to find out that she went to college for a completely different area: History. How do you go from History to Journalism?? Well she managed to find a different passion in journalism through her internship with a documentary company.

However, I think my favorite part about her visit was her stories about working for http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com as a local community editor. It was interesting, yet kind of comforting to hear that the small town she worked in mainly cared about what was going on in their local schools, sports, town, etc. Hearing that somewhere out there in the world, people care more about what’s going on in their community,  instead of something stupid is a breath of fresh air.

It was also funny to hear that so many people call in and complain about why this was said or why this wasn’t said, people really seem to care about who is publicized and how they are publicized in that town.

Novak was just pretty entertaining overall, she knew what she was talking about, had a lot of great opinions and recommendations of what to do and what not to do. It was great to hear that the more you know about html in general the more you are likely to find a job, finally I’m taking a class that will actually help my career! (haha)