Last week our paper ran a story about the confrontation between a rancher and natives illegally occupying his land.
Dene Moore wrote from her hometown in 100 Mile House, B.C., about an event receiving national media attention.
Since Sept. 8, Moore has joined our Saskatoon staff for a three-month internship. She is a journalism student from the University of Regina.
Moore will be writing stories, and learning more about photography, graphics and perhaps even editing. She will also learn more about agriculture.
“Apart from my parents’ childhood stories of growing up on farms and a bit of first-hand experience watching my uncles run a cattle ranch in B.C., I thought I would be completely lost when I had to write about agriculture,” Moore said.
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“But after living in Saskatchewan for a year and reading a wide range of newspapers … I realized that on the prairies, agriculture is news.”
Moore said that no matter what newspaper you work for, “an understanding of agriculture and its importance to the area is essential, and I’m working on it.”
Why did she choose journalism?
Said Moore: ” I always thought I would be a journalist so I could contribute to the world in some extraordinary way, by saving small countries on the verge of war by simply putting the right word in a column.
“Now I know I really just like to know things before everyone else so I can tell them about it.
“If you just do that because you like it, you’re called a gossip, but if you do it and get paid, you’re a journalist.”
Besides gaining journalism experience, Moore identified another advantage to working for our paper: “Best of all, when I’m done I hope I can sit down with my uncle and have some idea of what he does every day.”
Welcome, Dene.
