Best Story in Week 6

My classmate Brandon Call's story Head coach retires after 16 seasons was my favorite story this week. Not only is this a newsworthy story, but Brandon went above and beyond by finding so many sources to interview with. His story really captured how the athletes felt about Coach Flanagan and the quotes really drove me to continue reading the story all the way through. I would have never even known such an influential coach at UNM was retiring if it weren't for this story, making the journalistic quality very high for this story.

I loved the beginning to the multimedia piece. Its engaging and funny and its not a boring press conference about the coach retiring. You really get to see how humorous the coach was and how much he loved his job. I loved that Brandon integrated pictures from the seasons into the multimedia piece, making it that much stronger of a story. Brandon's written part tells the story of how the athletes feel about Flanagan and the video tells the story of how Flanagan feels about retiring. 

Overall I feel like this story was excellent and one of the strongest multimedia stories this semester. 

The only critique I would give is that no where in the headline or the beginning of the story does Brandon specify that Flanagan is the Girls basketball coach. You eventually in the story will understand what sport Flanagan coaches but maybe Brandon could add it to the beginning somewhere.

Best Story in Week 5

UNM Womens Rugby Goes to Nationals by Priscilla Ramirez was my favorite story this week. I had no idea that UNM had a rugby team let alone a women's rugby team that is on their way to nationals! I knew that this story would be a top contender this week when I was editing her story on Thursday. I really liked how she played up to the fact that they are the underdog going into nationals making the reader not only know about the rugby team but it makes them want to cheer for a team they may have never knew existed.

I really liked her photos in the story. Sports photos are always so compelling because they are action shots that really tell the story. Her multimedia piece flowed well but my only critique is that the audio sounded a bit funny in the story but I loved how the multimedia was different from her story making me want to listen to it all the way through.