The other day in my Digital Reporting class we were sent out onto campus to interview a random stranger and talk to them in depth for around half an around. We were given only one question to ask them: "What is the value of a college education?" We had to open with that, but then we were able to let the conversation go wherever it went. Talking to a random stranger like that for so long started to feel like talking to a new friend, as we told each other about our lives at home and at school. When I walked away from the girl I had met, I got an idea.
I think it'd be a really cool idea to go around to random college students and ask them the question: "What is going on in the news?" Keeping the question simple like that makes it so that a broad range of responses can be given. They could talk about world news, national, local, or just something that happened on the UNH campus earlier in the day. A broad range of students, or even professors and faculty as well, could be interviewed and their responses would be the content of the news site. It would be like a personalized news site and there could be ones for different campuses around the country. The thing is though, it's obviously not straight news. It's students' perspectives of the news and how they view what's going on around them. There could also be pictures or videos of the students that could go along with the articles.
This might be a hard thing to get going, but I think it could be very interesting to see take off. The conversations would all be unique and it would provide a very different perspective into news and into students' lives.
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