Zealous Toward Social Harmony

My name is Connor Showalter and I am currently a second year journalism major at Temple Univeristy  I plan to graduate in Spring 2012.

Recently I was the assitant news editor for the Bloomsburg University newspaper, The Voice, for which I also write many contributing articles.  I was also an editor for an online-student-generated blog called BU Now .

I stayed active at BU participating in Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track (NCAA D-II), DiscipleMakers Fellowship, Notetaking (Student Service for hearing impaired students), and community service organizations.

I am started this blog because I want to further practice story writing and reporting skills for my journalism career.

I realize I am in an early stage of my writing career, but I already know what I want to focus on and that is human rights, social equity, and diversity issues. Eventually my dream would consist of doing investigative reporting for a large media outlet where I could help liberate oppressed people by spreading awareness about their problems. But, right now I will try to uncover injustices in my community or campus.

Moreover I know this blog will allow myself to store my ideas, views, and research about social issues today with multimedia, so I will be ready to cover news in the future.

Personally I see myself as an online journalist. With the way the media world is evolving, I see more opportunities in the job market if I learn how to use digital media. Also I am more comfortable and excited about the guidelines of online writing: the immediacy of publishing, creating something visually pleasing, and best of all having unlimited space to write.

It is known that a good blog is one that is committed to its audience of readers. To be interactive and interesting and one that is updated constantly. All of these points will be on my list of goals to fulfill for Zealous Toward Social Harmony.