{"id":26,"date":"2016-01-29T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2016-01-29T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:00:48","slug":"about-kimberly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/about-kimberly\/","title":{"rendered":"About Kimberly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_4865\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey there!<\/p>\n

My name is Kimberly, and I’m a student journalist at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’m actually a double major in journalism and electronic media, so if you can’t find me in the Royal Purple office at any point during the week, there’s probably a good chance I’m in the UWWTV studio. I may sleep in the residence halls, but I certainly don’t live there.<\/p>\n

My journalism story starts with me as a young pre-teen, carrying a notebook around with her everywhere she went so she could\u00a0write short stories-turned-novels all day. I moved away from writing my novels (which are deeply buried and shall never see the light of day) to journalism writing as I started high school and realized I probably wasn’t going to write a New York Times bestseller, I needed to make money and I sure didn’t want to be an English teacher for the rest of my life. I adored my English teachers, but the reason I admired them is the exact reason I didn’t want to be in their shoes.<\/p>\n

It was my goal to be on the high school newspaper, so I enrolled myself in a journalistic writing class as a sophomore in high school, praying I was going to love journalism as much as I hoped I might.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed being a journalist more than I could have other thought I would. Starting at the Norse Star as a high school junior and continued on to an internship at my hometown newspaper, I learned how to accurately report, write stories and develop my skills as a photojournalist.<\/p>\n

I then decided to go to UW-Whitewater to pursue a journalism degree, and joined the Royal Purple editorial staff as the Photo Editor, and got involved with UWWTV as a news anchor. As of my fourth semester on campus, I’ve worked my way up to News Editor at the Royal Purple and the News Director for UWWTV.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey there! My name is Kimberly, and I’m a student journalist at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’m actually a double major in journalism and electronic media, so if you can’t find me in the Royal Purple office at any point … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5773,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}