Today was another adventure in the KOMU newsroom. I arrived around midnight with a few story ideas-one was about a Spooktacular film festival coming up in October at the Blue Note-today was the last day for community filmmakers to submit their horror or supernatural films! It was a fun idea but not as timely as some others. My better story idea was a new web tool developed by the Boone County Sheriff's Department making neighborhood crime records and reports readily available on showmeboone.com. The incidents are now mapped and presented online and this tool is extremely helpful for neighborhood watch groups as well as potential real estate buyers and residents. Interesting and informative...however there was a more pressing issue that needed to be addressed. This morning at 9 a.m. a trial was held at the Boone County Courthouse for a woman who was charged of murdering her 2 year old son last July. The boy was abused and according to the autopsy from University Hospital, he ultimately died from blunt force trauma to the head. The boy's father was also charged for his murder and awaits trial in December. This was a prominent issue in the news last summer and viewers have been extremely responsive to knowing what is next for the parents.
With two live reporters and only one working live shot truck, my story was not as dependent on my live location and focused primarily on the facts and history of the case, so I stayed in the newsroom to do live onset hits. This story was a good learning experience for me as far as digging up past court records and researching what had happened last July when the boy was murdered. It was also good anchoring practice due to the fact that my general disposition is bubbly and energetic, which I quickly found out does not work when reporting hard news such as this trial. Hopefully my next shift will take me on location but for now you can watch me in the newsroom.
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