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I am a student in my second year studying International Communications and Media at the University of Wollongong.
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Business As Usual
There aren’t many Australians as passionate, dedicated and hardworking as some Australian immigrants.(Read)
Published April 22, 2009
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Anastacia commented on "Business As Usual" (about 1 year ago)
Hey.. I ran into your report completely out of the blue, but I'm glad I did. It really opens your mind about working hard on what you truely wish for. I'm actually thinking of coming to Wollongong, so this kind of gave me a greater push.
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Jessie Watson commented on "Business As Usual" (about 1 year ago)
I really enjoyed the imagery you were cookin' up in the kitchen! I really like hearing stories about people like this that don't normally get attention.
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Irina Ibragimova commented on "Business As Usual" (about 1 year ago)
great article! i would love to meet these 2 people after reading about them!
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Sonja Eberly commented on "Business As Usual" (about 1 year ago)
Nicholas, you've got a great human interest piece in the works here! However, in reading it, I wasn't totally sure what your angle was at first, and your immediate reference to yourself in the first person was a little jarring. You might try adding some more context into the article at large first. Why are you interviewing Yui and Arie? What reason is there for placing yourself into this story, as journalists often purposefully leave themselves out in order to achieve a level of detachment from what they're reporting on. Explain to your readers why you deserve to be "seen" by them in the piece you're creating. Or, alternately, you might consider taking yourself out entirely and reporting on Yui and Arie as an invisible observer. This would produce the added benefit of shortening your article. Either way is acceptable, so try out what feels right to you.
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Ted Iliff commented on "Business As Usual" (8 months ago)
Overall, this was a nice vignette of two immigrants working hard to make their way in a new homeland. With very little editing effort, the first person references at the start of the story were rewritten without harming the imagery and information of the first few paragraphs. News writing generally requires the journalist to maintain a detached perspective. Most editors would ask for last names of Yui and Arie. There seems to be no journalistic reason to keep their identities from the reader.