Reporting accross platforms assignment- demonstrating the ways at which I would report on VSU student commutes using a range of media including broadcast, radio, web, & print.

1. Questions I would like
to Address
- How far of a
distance to VSU
students live from
the university
- What are the
advantages &
disadvantages of
living farther/closer
to University
- Why did VSU
students choose to
attend a university
Far/close to home?
- What is it like to
have a long
commute/short
commute from home
to VSU?

3. WEB POLL
For the Web elements of my story I
would like to include a web poll at
which VSU students can be invited
to take in order to better access the Source: Polljunkie.com
breakdown of the distance a & VSU Students
majority of students travel from
home to school
http://www.polljunkie.com/NAm62k/Poll13974.aspx

4. STUDENTS DAKINIA
DAVIS & ALLIE
PARISH DISCUSS
THEIR COLLEGE
COMMUTE
For the video portion of my story
I would like to include a video
recorded interview that is a
discussion contrasting the
advantages and disadvantages
of going to school locally verses
attending a university that is a
substantially far distance from
home.
I would select two students, one Interview with VSU Students & Poli.
who has a very short commute Sci. majors Dakinia Davis & Allie
from their place of residence to Parish
VSU and one who had a long
commute from VSU

5. Sara Giles, senior, early childhood
major at VSU travels nearly 850 miles to visit
home on her breaks from school.
Giles, whose permanent place of
residence is North East Maryland, says its
difficult being so far away from her family
because they are very close.
“I can’t just go grab dinner one
weekend with them. We have to plan out all of
the details before I can visit,” said Giles.
Giles also said she spends a ton
of money to go home.
“While others are complaining
about four hour drives to Atlanta in traffic, I’m
making fifteen hour drives in traffic.
Sometimes it takes her longer
than a day to get home in poor traffic conditions.
Source: Student,
Sara Giles
Photo by Sara Giles

6. Place of origin among
VSU students
Georgia
Other
States
Other
Countries
What the perimeter of 200+ Map Graphic by Barrie Fitzgerald
mi. from VSU looks like

7. VSU Commute
Statistics
Source: Institutional Research
Analyst, Barrie D. Fitzgerald
of the Strategic Research &
Analysis department at VSU

8. Source: VSU
Students &
their personal
experiences
with living far
& away from
their
university.