A community blog is an invaluable resource to a new journalist.
Having a reason to just "hang out" doesn't always present to journalism students, especially for we who run the quarter-system wheel all academic year.
My time in Edgewater helped me socially penetrate an area to which I am an outsider. Though a camera would seem to stretch that distance between me and every subject I encountered, I recognized that everyone is passionate to tell the story of their neighborhood, to speak for something that is - to them - a wonderful home.
It's really inspired me to look at this blog as part of my professional portfolio.
When anyone asks why Up2TheEdge might be on my resume, I'll say "I heard there was a place where diversity exists in this city like no where else. I had to experience that. I made videos about coffeehouses and waterfronts. I talked to people in the community about their best known panhandler and the story nobody there knew about her. I'll go somewhere else and do it again."
I can't wait to improve these skills, either.
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