[Journalists] About writing for school newspapers

[hmp]

Hello,
I have some things to say. First of all, I did not mean, by any 
matter, to connect poor spelling with blindness. I didn't know 
that I had to be that super serious. I was just saying about my 
spelling errors just in case I had some in my email message. But, 
please apologize me if I meant to relate spelling errors with 
blindness, which I didn't mean to at all! And, for your 
information, English is my first language, I can read grade 1 and 
grade 2 Braille, (By the way I use a BrailleNote for sending and 
receiving email,) and also, I use NFB Newsline almost every 
single day! So, please don't put me down! If you're thinking what 
you're thinking of me, just don't do that because that actually 
hurts my feelings and I get very upset! Please don't put me down! 
I don't like it.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Barbara Pierce" <bpierce at oberlin.net
>To: "'Blind Professional Journalists List'" 
<journalists at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:04:23 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Journalists] About writing for school newspapers

>You should not presume that the sighted students have strengths 
that you do
>not because of blindness. You apologized for your spelling 
errors, and I
>suspect that you connect poor spelling with blindness. If you are 
not a
>Braille reader, that may be the case, but you can overcome the 
problem if
>you decide to work on it. I never send out an email without 
running my
>spellchecker on the text. Certainly articles should not be turned 
in without
>very careful proofing and checking of the spelling. I feel 
certain that
>other members of the newspaper staff struggle with spelling as 
well, so do
>not excuse yourself or presume helplessness in dealing with poor 
spelling
>because of blindness.

>I suspect that English is not your first language. Nothing but 
reading a lot
>of well-written English will help you with the finer points of 
grammar and
>syntax. I hope that you use NEWSLINE. That is your best hope for 
exposing
>yourself to the best journalists writing today.

>Barbara Pierce

>-----Original Message-----
>From: journalists-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:journalists-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On Behalf Of hmp
>Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:03 PM
>To: journalists at nfbNet.org
>Subject: [Journalists] About writing for school newspapers

>Hello to all in this list: I'm sure the majority of you are all
>journalists. I need some advice for writing stories on my school
>newspaper.
>I'm not a professional journalist, though I write for a high
>school newspaper. I am a staff writer. I write articles for
>Eisenhower High School which is the name of my school in Yakima,
>WA, and the name of my school newspaper (kind of small) is the
>Five Star.
>I'm not sure if this list is appropriate for non-professional
>journalists, or for starters, but please apologize me if this is
>not appropriate for the list, and/or because I'm not a
>professional journalist I am not suppose to write on this list.
>Anyways, I need some advice, I'm pretty sure that you all have
>experiences. I write and when I join my group every day, I am
>surrounded by sighted people, all my fellow staff writers are
>sighted. I am actually in a Journalism class in which I join and
>participate daily. We are very independent, but we have a pretty
>nice adviser.
>Anyways, because everybody in my class/Journalism club is sighted
>except for me, I would like to know something:
>As a blind journalist, what things do I have to know, such as
>strengths, or things I should consider doing more or less than my
>other fellow partners? What things do I have to work on better or
>less? I understand all of what journalism implies now that I
>joined the class, such as how to interview, to give a voice to
>the public, about the freedom of press and etc. All I need is to
>know these things and if someone can advice me that'll be great.
>Also, any suggestions will be always very appreciated. Sorry if I
>have many spelling errors. But thanks.

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