{"id":57836,"date":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-journalism-student-pursues-dream-to-become-tv-reporter\/"},"modified":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-journalism-student-pursues-dream-to-become-tv-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/uri-journalism-student-pursues-dream-to-become-tv-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 journalism student pursues dream to become TV reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tAlessandra Herrera honed storytelling, writing, editing skills as intern at TV stations, magazines<\/b><\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 10, 2015 \u2013 Alessandra Herrera wants to be a journalist and, yes, she knows it\u2019s a shrinking profession, but she can’t help herself. The 21-year-old 溏心vlog免费B站 senior is hooked on telling stories.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI can\u2019t see myself doing anything else other than being a reporter,\u201d she says. \u201cI might have to end up in the middle of nowhere, which I\u2019m prepared to do. Whatever it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHello Fargo.<\/p>\n


\nWith internships at magazines and TV stations under her belt, Herrera will graduate with plenty of work to showcase her writing, reporting and editing talents.<\/p>\n


\nShe wrote for a parents\u2019 magazine in New York, penned stories for Rhode Island Monthly and interned at two television stations: WJAR\/NBC 10 in Providence and WTNH\/ABC 8 in New Haven, Conn. Working in broadcast journalism was thrilling, she says, and convinced her to follow that path.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cTelevision is a powerful medium,\u201d she says. \u201cI want people to turn on the TV and watch me in the morning.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nBorn in Peru, Herrera \u2013 better known as \u201cAllie\u201d\u2013 and her mother and sister moved to the United States when she was 6. They lived in Texas and New York before settling in Greenwich, Conn., where she excelled in the classroom and on the field as a shot putter and discus thrower. \u201cI\u2019d do a lot of Olympic lifts,\u201d she says. \u201cI was a thrower.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe was also a writer. Her senior year she told her English teacher that she might study kinesiology in college. \u201cNo, no, no,\u201d he responded. \u201cYou have a gift. Use it.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nHer first journalism class at 溏心vlog免费B站 \u2013 Introduction to Mass Media taught by John Pantalone, chair of the journalism department \u2013 was challenging and a game-changer. \u201cAfter that, I was 100-percent hooked on journalism,\u201d she says. From there, she jumped to magazine writing, TV news, multimedia reporting, public affairs reporting and more.<\/p>\n


\nOne of her more memorable articles for The Good 5 Cent Cigar was about Vivien Whitney, a food service aide at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Rhody Market. She wrote of her courage and tenacity after she moved to the United States from the Philippines years ago. Herrera says they hit it off, sharing stories as first-generation Americans working hard to make a better life.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cI love meeting new people,\u201d says Herrera, \u201cand immersing myself in their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAt Rhode Island Monthly, she wrote about women\u2019s nutrition, debunking myths about eating and fitness and offering story ideas to the editorial team. An internship at NYMetroParents Magazine gave her a chance to write about bullying. But her TV internships proved to be the most fulfilling.<\/p>\n


\nAt Channel 8 in New Haven, she worked on CT Style, a lifestyle show, writing scripts and helping with interviews. She also came up with story ideas, including the one about Poh, a terminally ill dog whose owner took it on a 12,000-mile trip around the world.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWorking for CT Style was one of the most incredible experiences I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d she says. That internship led to the one at Channel 10, where she shadowed reporters covering breaking news. Although she never appeared on-air, she put together a tape of mock stand-up reports about everything from a hit-and-run to a storm warning, which she can use when she applies for jobs. Reporters also gave her much-appreciated feedback.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a fun ride,\u201d she says. \u201cI cannot say I regret a single thing.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nWhat about her love of sports?<\/p>\n


\n\tIn one of her Channel 10 clips she\u2019s standing on the football field in Gillette Stadium, joyfully reporting about the Patriots. She\u2019ll be content covering traffic accidents for now, but she\u2019s also not ruling out a career as a sports reporter.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere are so many different paths I can take,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m willing to explore them all.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tPantalone has no doubt she will: \u201cAllie is one of the most ambitious and enthusiastic students I have seen in my time at the University. She has seized every opportunity to learn and gain experience in the field. She’s bright and energetic and has the kind of personality needed to do the kind of work she wants to do. We’re very proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTo look at her work, visit Alessandra Herrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nPhotos above: Alessandra Herrera, 21, of Greenwich, Conn., a senior at the 溏心vlog免费B站 who has interned at magazines and television stations as she seeks a degree in journalism. Photo courtesy of Alessandra Herrera.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alessandra Herrera honed storytelling, writing, editing skills as intern at TV stations, magazines KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 10, 2015 \u2013 Alessandra Herrera wants to be a journalist and, yes, she knows it\u2019s a shrinking profession, but she can’t help herself. The 21-year-old 溏心vlog免费B站 senior is hooked on telling stories. \u201cI can\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}