OPINION
I find joy in connecting with other people to discuss ideas and solutions.
Being a community journalist doesn't work so well if you don't like being involved and working with community leaders.
On April 10, I had the opportunity to be part of the Aubrey CTE Advisory Board.
Members of the business community sat with Aubrey ISD administrators and staff members to share ideas about how students in their career and technical education courses can be best prepared for approaching the workforce upon receiving their certifications from the courses they take.
I was able to discuss my industry, which I have been part of for going on 18 years now, with teachers who want to give their students as much real-world practice as possible while they are in the relatively sheltered environment of the school.
We talked about ways to approach assignments for students to integrate skills like capturing photos along with the work they must do to be certified in Photoshop.
We discussed ways to have the students identify beats that interest them that they could work throughout the year to create a body of work that could help them show work experience when they apply to work at a newspaper, magazine, television station or other media outlet. Journalism isn't an easy field. Some journalists have literally faced minefields to document what has happened in wartime.
My work has not proven life-threatening thus far.
However, we face metaphorical landmines in the form of ethical decisions that challenge us regularly.
It never quite feels like we do enough to get the information out to the public, which is the driving force behind what we do.
But we try each week to keep pushing, to be out in the community and to talk about the issues that affect our readers.
We get to be there for the good, the bad and the indifferent.
That's what keeps us going, even in difficult weeks.
I'm proud to run this newspaper, today and every day.
Abigail Allen is the Editor & Publisher of the Post-Signal. She can be reached at [email protected].
