My old ish

Around the time that I decided to get this blog off the ground again I took a look at another discarded page of mine hosted on blogspot that I'd almost forgot about. Out of my supposed college hot-shot edginess I called it "Da Meanest Blog" and to my slight surprise I think I did a better job then I originally thought in documenting a key part of my life thus far.

The blog started in the summer of 2006, I was an intern at the Wausau Daily Herald and unbeknownst to my then-self was starting my grand, still-evolving adventure in central Wisconsin. I started it as part of my obligation as a Chips Quinn Scholar, the name of the fantastic organization which every year places dozens of the best aspiring journalists of color and place them in many of our nation's newsrooms for intensive runs as interns.

In this blog you can see some of my stories that I wrote for the Daily Herald back then (such a different place journalism was in then, such a different place the Daily Herald and the regional Gannett Central Wisconsin Newspapers operation was then. That summer I wrote only one article that had anything to do with Stevens Point, which is where I work now. Today we use part-time stringers out of Point and every other thing they cover has to be good for at least two coverage areas. We hardly cover anything nowadays that is specific to one paper- aint enough people working here for that kind of specialization) and I continued it through my final semester in college, mostly posting up opinion articles and editorials I wrote as the opinion page editor for the Daily Egyptian at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Fair Carbondale, the dale of the Carbons, how I miss ye (sometimes). Anyhow...if you want to get to know more of the enigma that is Kyle Means, this is a good place to start.

http://dameanestblog.blogspot.com/