It Was Hot Out at the Apple Festival

Africk- Apple Fest...

My story this week was easy. It wasn't quite as easy as last week's because I actually had to drive somehwere I've never been before and I almost ran out of gas, but it was very easy to contact my source and find the place once I got there. LaFayette is a small town about 20 minutes South of Syracuse, and finding a giant fairground with slides and tents and everything of the sort isn't hard. However, my goal for next week is to find somethnig a little more hard news. It's very easy to cover some soft story like the Apple Festival or a new show starting, but I think it's extremely difficult to cover something like a murder trial. That's why it was really cool reading some the posts. A lot of people have put themselves out there to get great stories, and I admire that. Granted some of them haven't worked out, but more often than not the risk paid off. Since a lot of people did harder news stories, I can now gain an insight into how to find and cover some less feature-y and more news-y stories. My stories were safe and fun, but not all stories should be fun. They should be interesting and relevant to a wide number of people in this area. Next week, you better believe I'm not going to be pitching any story about some festival or something... at least I hope not.