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Cold Weather Tough on Florida's Manatees

Posted February 22, 2010 at 19:07 in

Part of the ABC News On Campus bureau (Vic, Vanessa and myself) traveled down to Crystal River last week to document manatees getting released into the wild.

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A Town Hall with Pizazz

Posted February 14, 2010 at 10:10 in

Seven panelists. Dozens of students. Delicious subs. Questions, musings and advice on the future of journalism.

All of these things came together to create a town hall forum at the end of January. The theme of the forum was Integrating New Tools with Traditional Journalism, and students got the chance to ask questions about their future careers.

The UF Society of Professional Journalists, The Fine Print and Campus Progress co-hosted the event. Lydia (co-editor of The Fine Print), Travis (Fine Print’s web guru) and I (president of UF SPJ) met up a bunch of times before the event to discuss what we wanted it to be. What did we want to create?

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Univ. of Florida Awaits Tim Tebow Ad

Posted January 31, 2010 at 17:05 in

I had an article posted to the ABC News Web site last week regarding Tim Tebow’s controversial Super Bowl advertisement. It was linked on The Drudge Report, the story generated more than 1,200 comments and it was the most e-mailed story on the ABC News site for a few days. Pretty exciting stuff!

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'Tis the season

Posted November 30, 2009 at 10:10 in

The TV station recorded my voice for a commercial today while I was at work! That was strange. And I talked about health foods as gifts for the holidays.

So if all goes well, these pipes will be on cable. It still feels like a random, weird achievement.

Speaking of the holidays, there’s only one more semester left until I graduate, and that fact is rapidly sinking in. Friends and fellow journalism majors are starting to plan their “real world” fates. The intense search for internships has gripped the entire journalism college. It’s starting to feel like an episode of Survivor.

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Blogging from the Back Line

Posted October 4, 2009 at 17:05 in

Making things up on the spot. Being center stage. Playing with invisible props. Sound crazy?

It can be. Most of the time.

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New FEMA leader grew up, trained in Alachua County

Posted October 4, 2009 at 16:04 in

Mr. Ron Dupont, editor of The North Florida Herald, gave me this great national story opportunity at the beginning of the summer. It was a struggle trying to get an interview with the new FEMA administrator, but it was worth the wait in the end! This story was originally published in The Herald on Aug. 20.

He walked the streets of Alachua in his youth. He walked the hallways of Santa Fe High School.

Now, he walks the halls with President Obama in Washington D.C., working to protect the United States from disaster.

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SPJ-tastic!

Posted August 11, 2009 at 07:07 in

I just received some brilliant news, hot off the presses, that I would like to share with the Internet world…

The UF Society of Professional Journalists has been named the National SPJ Campus Chapter of the Year! Yippee!

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Nearing the end of summer: A journalistic update

Posted August 8, 2009 at 13:01 in

My senior year officially starts Aug. 24. It’s an exciting yet terrifying thought, that in a year I’ll be thrown out into the real world. I think my job search will start once school starts.

So I have stayed in Gainesville this summer, and a lot has transpired. Here’s a bit of what’s been going on lately…

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A Voice in the Streets

Posted July 9, 2009 at 03:03 in

This was my feature writing final project for the spring semester. I had a blast calling people all over the country who ran these street newspapers. They were very inspiring, and I hope to start up a similar project someday.

Three men with three difficult pasts stand in the streets. One man didn’t have enough money to pay rent, and he couldn’t afford to find a place to sleep at night. The other struggled to find housing while he received money for his disability, but it wasn’t enough to get by. The third man has been homeless for nearly five years. He had gotten in a terrible accident on his Harley, tore up his shoulder and destroyed his ability to find decent work.

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Climbing Bleachers

Posted July 8, 2009 at 07:07 in

About a week ago, I spent a good hour in the near-empty UF stadium climbing the bleachers and attempting to get a few shots with my Nikon D5000.

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Hello There

I have ridden in a helicopter that has flown over Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, walked through corn fields out in the rural outskirts of town and sat in on a High Springs police active-shooter training. I have conversed with many people, from circus performers and authors to hackers and the local homeless. And, believe it or not, I actually take joy in covering City Commission meetings.

I am a college journalist at the University of Florida, and I have worked for The Independent Florida Alligator and The North Florida Herald in High Springs, Fla. I now work at the local news station, WCJB TV20, as an associate producer, and ABC News On Campus as a reporter.

I am currently hunting for more internship experience and freelance opportunities.

I also love to collaborate on creative projects, whether it be with music, poetry or fiction. If you need help editing a chapter of your short story or need a violinist for that piece you’re planning to play, I’m your gal.

If you would like to get in touch with me, feel free to e-mail me at aprildudash@gmail.com.

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