Sources for a News Story?

[jjb297]

As an extracurricular, I write for the our high school newspaper, the CHS globe. We publish monthly, and each student is responsible for (at least) one story each month. Our high school is about 10 minutes from downtown St. Louis, and maybe 1500 people read, or at least glance at, the paper.

 

Here is the website for the paper: http://www.chsglobe.com/ (I dont know how the URL button works)

 

For the March Issue, I was thinking of writing a relatively short (700 word) story about a preview for the 2010 Coaster Season. Six Flags St. Louis opens in early April, so the March Issue would be the latest I could really preview the year (not only talk about Six Flags, but also about Harry Potter's World at IOA and other new stuff). I don't think I know enough about coasters to do a column, so I felt a simple newstory might run better. Then again, if I cannot find any quotes, I will just have to come up with some other lame story idea for March and hold a coaster story for next year. If anyone is interested (specifically a coaster expert like Robb or Elissa) in providing a quote for the story, please let me know. Then I could email you a few questions, or I guess chat in the chatroom or have a phone interview. I was thinking that I could maybe get 2 people willing to give me 10 minutes of their time, and if any others wanted to contribute, it would be a bonus.

 

Thanks so much-

 

Jake

[jjb297]

Looks like I might hold this story for another time. Thanks

[robbalvey]

^ Please do not double post. I'm really sorry that we don't have time for this, but we are just very busy with:

 

- Launching Club TPR

- Planning details for West Coast Bash and Bay Area Bash

- Filling orders for Coaster Expedition Volume 13

- Working on Roller Coasters in the RAW Voume 5

- Planning 5 TPR trips for this year

- Leaving for a 10 day trip on Wednesday

- Moderating this forum

- My Day Job

- Our family

 

I know it sounds bad that we don't have "10 minutes" but quite frankly, we just don't. Especially when most of the information you're looking for already exists within the forum somewhere, you just need to search for it more.

 

Sorry.

 

--Robb