In September 2006, I wrote my "9/11 Chronicle" in hopes of having my 3,600-word personal experience published as a Flash presentation during the five-year anniversary of the terrorists attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. My skills and passion as a multimedia journalist were just beginning and so my 9/11 package did not develop in time for that commemoration. Five years later, as the world reflected on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, my experience on that fateful day earned me a media grand slam: coverage in print, radio, television and online.
For sure, the advent of social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, helps any individual share his or her personal story. But it also helped to have the valuable assistance of the Marquette University Office of Marketing and Communication, which handled media inquiries after posting a 9/11-related news release on August 16.
The first query came from Mitch Teich, executive director of "Lake Effect," the locally produced weekday magazine program on WUWM-FM in Milwaukee. Here's the radio interview he did with me and my Diederich College colleague, Danielle Beverly, about our 9/11 experiences. Below is the other coverage stemming from my "9/11 Chronicle."
For sure, the advent of social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, helps any individual share his or her personal story. But it also helped to have the valuable assistance of the Marquette University Office of Marketing and Communication, which handled media inquiries after posting a 9/11-related news release on August 16.
The first query came from Mitch Teich, executive director of "Lake Effect," the locally produced weekday magazine program on WUWM-FM in Milwaukee. Here's the radio interview he did with me and my Diederich College colleague, Danielle Beverly, about our 9/11 experiences. Below is the other coverage stemming from my "9/11 Chronicle."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an abridged version of my "9/11 Chronicle" as an op-ed piece in its Crossroads section on Sunday. I edited the complete 3,600-word text to 1,600 words. No small feat, I'll tell you.
Here's the video of anchor/reporter Tom Murray interviewing me about my 9/11 experience on "Live at Daybreak" on WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee) at 6:45 a.m. on Sunday. My first live TV interview since 2005 in Rochester, N.Y. Enjoyed getting an email from one of my former students right after he later saw the segment on the 11 p.m. newscast.
Here is a video, "Flashback 9/11: Herbert Lowe," that one of my Marquette journalism students, Katie Doherty from Chicago, produced as a companion piece to her story, "After ten years, effects of 9/11 still felt in U.S.," for The Marquette Tribune on Thursday. The video, Katie's first ever, is at the bottom of the page containing her article.
Last, but not least, this posting I wrote for Communi8, the Diederich College of Communication blog, last Tuesday.
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