Story of Huppert

This is Alli Huppert. Small describes the kind of town she lives in. Small describes the school she attends. Small describes the size of the newspaper staff she works on. Small describes the student body that shows little interest. She gets through to kids to get any story that she can. Which is not easy because there aren’t many out to collect.

The first thing that strikes you about Alli is her calm, cool, and collected laid back mood. She is not afraid to tell you what you want to hear or answer what you want to know. This helps her capture the best stories because people feel comfortable around her. Coming from a small school can be tough when it comes to journalism, but you may also easily find the best stories.

This is a story about becoming a writer for the newspaper and yearbook. But also what she did before becoming a writer and an editor to be this year. She was in speech which can help writing as well. Such as grammar and proper use of certain things. This story is not only about a newspaper writer/editor. It’s about someone who has a true passion for writing news and collecting news.

Who is Alli? Alli is a 16-year-old junior and editor at Blair High School. But that’s during the day. Truth is, she is a dancer outside of writing. For almost her whole life, she has danced. Tap, ballet, jazz, and is now signing up ballroom dancing. She was also in FBLA. Which stands for Future Business Leaders of America. She is involved in many ways with her community.

It is features that take over her writing. It’s a small school, so to get good information, many features are included in the newspaper. Having to go out into the school that may not be interested at all times with the news, Alli decides who to interview by simply walking through the school and seeing what people are interested in. Get the scoop on new things to do and places to go and ask those same people about these things and develop a feature out of almost nothing to work with and put out the newest feature story. The school is very generic itself. They aren’t the best at sports and the student body isn’t big into journalism and seems to not care as much as the students that write it do. With such a small student body, the staff is only around 7-10 people. So everyone has to pitch in, all in their own ways. Which can be challenging, but fun at the same time.

Of course what makes Alli interesting is her real passion for writing and journalism all together. This passion led Alli in newspaper and journalism. She would love to major in Journalism when it comes to college time. But only as a writer. Alli would broadcast to an extent, but would like to keep the writing aspect of newspaper and journalism. Alli wants to keep the exciting feeling of unfolding a newspaper and reading an article opposed to radio, TV, and even online news. It’s just not the same to her. Alli also enjoys photography. She thinks fun and exciting, but her passion for writing brings her back to writing news. As Alli becomes older, she is deciding what she wants to focus on a certain kind of writing. Alli would love to cover concerts and movies. She wants to write music and entertainment. That is also a passion of hers. And that’s Alli Huppert, the writer, the editor, the junior from Blair, in a nutshell.