http://hallie-mathia.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] hallie-mathia.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2010-01-24 01:18 pm

Help, please!

Hi guys, my name is Hallie and I'm a college student at Emerson College.  I'm studying journalism, and one of my assignments this semester is to cover Davis Square -- basically, to follow and report on it through May.

I'm not from the area (I'm actually from Texas!) but I went to Davis this morning and walked around and honestly -- I fell in love.  What a great area!  I'm so excited I get to cover it!

I stumbled across this LiveJournal while doing some research, and I was wondering if any of you would be able to talk to me about Davis, what you like about it, what you as a community are doing for/with the area, etc.  I'd love any links or leads you could give me, or any stories you may want to see featured!  I'm all ears for what you guys have to say!

Thanks for reading this, and again -- any information you can give me is welcome and wonderful.  Thank you guys so much!!!  Have a great day :)

Hallie 

[identity profile] enochs-fable.livejournal.com 2010-01-25 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll have to report back with what you come up with!

I wish I could find the link to the derided story about the weird Ask-O-Thingy (you could put questions in, but only the one guy would answer them)... and the local reporter who wrote a piece on it without doing much in the way of due diligence (and hence missing all interesting stuff.)To her credit, she apologized instead of just vanishing with no response.

People here are pretty passionate (some would say obsessed or just plain crazy) about Davis Square, and I have two pieces of advice:

Don't make things up and don't be lazy. If you don't know, get out there and find out. There's more info out there than you can shake a stick at, and while a lot of it can be found just sitting at your desk, most of it, the good stuff, can only be unearthed by actually getting out and talking to people and visiting the places you're writing about.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2010-01-25 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
If you go to the local characters tag and search for 'wheel' you'll probably find it.

don't mess with the square

[identity profile] enochs-fable.livejournal.com 2010-01-25 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Here it is: post about Somerville News intern reporter and the Wheel (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/1877215.html). She didn't do her fact-checking and people nailed her for it. A rough introduction to the world of journalism for sure.

Re: don't mess with the square

[identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com 2010-01-25 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL, I certainly remember that one! :)