Five years and three TV stations into my career as a television reporter my News Director called me into his office, sat me down and asked me why I wanted to be a reporter. “I want to tell stories,” I said. His reply? “You should want to tell stories that matter.”
But here’s the thing, often stories that matter to one person, don’t impact another person at all. I wanted to tell stories of hope and redemption and love, stories with twists and turns, tears and laughs. But more and more my assignments fell into categories of crime, murder, and molestation. They were stories with no hope. No love. No laughs.
So on August 29th, 2007 I stopped telling the stories that matter to TV producers and ratings-hungry executives and started my career as a freelance writer. I can’t say that all of my assignments have been stories that matter to the masses, or even to a few. But I’m telling stories and that’s all that matters to me.
Visit my website www.AlisonStorm.com.
You can check out my writing on these websites:
The Bargainist- named one of the top 100 blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PC Mag!
I also write for these magazines:
Here are some sites I’ve written copy for:
September 2, 2007
1 Comment
March 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Hello… your blog was posted on the wordpress homepage and i was interested in reading your thoughts about jason’s ridiculous change of mind last night… what i found was a comforting reassurance that someone thinks just like i do. this is the first season i watched the bachelor from beginning to end… and quite frankly, im mad at the show. and at jason. i was frustrated when he let stephanie go. and then kari (for no reason at all). and then jillian because i thought she was the best choice out of the top 3. and then what he did last night to melissa, although it was no surprise, was the ultimate and extreme of his stupidity this season. however, im so glad at the remarks melissa made while he was breaking up with her. she finally said what i believe every woman in america was thinking.
thanks for sharing your thoughts. im sure i will visit your blog more often as some of your other writings have attracted my interest.
-lindsey