THE Media

I had a brief stint as a videojournalist in high school, where I would could choose between two cameras: a small, silver sleek digital camera that had a collapsible screen so I didn’t need to squint, or a 12 year old, 8 pound hunk of junk that I literally had to insert a VHS tape into for recording.

I opted for the VHS monster.  It looked like the ones folks carried in the movies, and I felt more cool looking with that thing around.

We operated on Adobe 5.0 which was shown to me once and I got the handle of it.  My junior year in high school, they upgraded to Adobe Premier, and they also lost who was in my opinion, their best eye on the field/court/etc. 

(Since we graduated in 2005, I heard they now actually have a live-streaming news show they air every Friday morning.  Show offs.)

Flash forward five years later, I am a college graduate and hustling for a job with an English degree: I am hired on as a writer/reporter and I am PUMPED, determined to do whatever it takes to keep the job and excel to the top.

I am willing to do everything they want me to do: Work late, work early, work weekends, work holidays, write extra, shoot pictures, shoot more pictures, shoot MORE pictures…

But that darned Mac I was working on…there was always “something” wrong with it. 

After my pleas for a new computer, the machine I was working on was examined; there was nothing wrong with it, I just needed to suck it up. 

The machine was over ten years old, but I was very impressed by the fact that considering how many “identities” it had, it was still able to even function.

I then decided it was time to go ahead and step it up, and make peace with my longtime frenemy: Techzilla.  A YEAR into my job, my mother bought me a 27 inch Mac for me to format my photos and be completely up to date with no issues.

As we updated our web site at work, I realized that if people were going to be reading my stories, they needed to look great, have great photos, and even a few galleries.  I am proud to say that I was THE first person to publish a photo gallery accompanying a published feature:

"Paranormal Activity" by Lucy Biebel - The Examiner


I got so excited about this, I really wanted to continue with the photo galleries:


"Where the Wild Things Were" by Lucy Biebel - The Examiner