RSJ News
Student journalists tackle parking crime
10-12-2009
Photo by Andrew Chang
For Katie Buffo, sophomore at the University of Nevada, Reno, life quickly became a nightmare after her car was burglarized while on campus. Buffo returned to her Toyota Camry to find the front passenger window shattered, glass strewn throughout the interior. Inside, her backpack was opened and its contents scattered.
“I felt like, why me?” Buffo said. “There were five other cars surrounding me, and I just had my backpack in mine.”
That's the lead of the top student news story in Journalism 203. Read the complete story by Andrew Church, Andrew Chang, Andrew Gilbreth, Gabby Irvin and Ashton Sunseri here.
The different lab sections of J203 submit stories for consideration to Assistant Professor Bob Felten as the instructor in the J203 Newsroom, formerly known as a "lecture."
Reynolds School Dean Jerry Ceppos and Felten review the stories and the best of the week is posted. Criteria for consideration includes the news value, the quality of the writing and other presentation elements.
None of the stories can have been previously published anywhere including on any UNR website. This week's story was chosen for the news value and because the copy provided was basically "clean," Felten said.
