On the way to lunch, the two roads were oddly quiet and empty. So I stood in the center and looked down Kirkwood Avenue:
Campus is behind us. A load of stores and student-caliber restaurants and bars and downtown are in front of us.
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Nov 16
Burrrrrrrowing in
Animals have particular habits. Allie has routines, where she spends various and specific parts of her day, what she plays with and ignores, which of her bowls she prefers. She doesn’t like to touch bare skin, but she’s happy to claw her way up a pants leg. There’s a certain pillow she’ll sit on readily, and others she’ll ignore.
We also have several throws that circulate through the living room and she has preferences. Some of them she’ll walk across or even sit on. Some of them she’ll walk on. A few she has decided she likes. Around this white one, however, she’ll remind you of the old lava game we all played as children. And so this is how you know it is cold out just now:
Here’s the super duper moon peeking through the clouds this evening:
That’s from the parking deck as I headed home for the night. By the next super moon, your phone will take a much better photograph, I bet.
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Nov 16
Up in Indy
This is the Indiana State Museum. I walked by it on my way to a journalism conference today. The building was built entirely of local materials – including limestone, sandstone, steel, brick and glass. Each of the state’s 92 counties are represented by icons on the exterior walls.
But I went to a one-day journalism conference and said about three things. Also, I shivered a bit, because it was cold. Maybe I should have just gone to the museum.
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Nov 16
The weary Wednesday
The day after election night coverage is always a long one. I mentioned last night the first election I covered. It was a late night, well after midnight, before I was done. The next election I covered I slept for about two hours in my car. They are long, fascinating days full of interesting work. But the following Wednesday is a different, more exhausted experience.
Last night I paused in the IDS newsroom to check in their coverage. That’s an incredible paper. Here’s their front page today:
While the students worked late into the night last night, Ernie Pyle, was banging out copy early this morning:
And this evening Allie is still busy exploring all over:
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Nov 16
Election night coverage
Well, that was something.
Election night was a big deal in our new building on campus. We had live reports from the public television station, various political panels and all kinds of working student media. And, of course, on the big screen, we watched all of the national and international coverage. And at one point I looked up and I saw one of our students reporting on statewide television. That’s the young lady on the right:
She did a nice job, because she’s a talented reporter. We expect big things.
Elsewhere, the reporters at the IDS, the ridiculously successful campus newspaper, were planning tomorrow’s layout:
And in the newsroom they were waiting for numbers to roll in:
Meanwhile, over in a few of our production booths we had students doing a talk show on WIUX, the student radio station.
And of course my friends at IUS-TV had an election special tonight as well. You can see that right here:
The first election I covered, I was also in college. I wrote a story about the election of a new congressman — he would go on to become a two-term governor and when I interviewed him they were still whooping and hollering in the background — and a junior U.S. senator. That was a pretty great opportunity, and it set me off on a few great years of political news coverage. And me and my peers didn’t have the possibilities afforded to us to these young reporters. Imagine what they might do in the next 15 or 20 years.
