News Gathering

As soon as Tupelo won the North Half Championship and was heading to State for the second year in a row, I knew I wanted to do a package on this big achievement. Just like everyone else, I expected Tupelo to win and I thought I would be reporting on a back-to-back State Championship title. With 2 seconds left of the game, Gulfport had thrown a Hail Mary, winning the game by one point. I knew reporting on the game was going to be tough. After discussing the best way to go about this story, my classmates and I decided to focus more on the fan's reaction.

I knew I wanted to interview several people to help strengthen this story. With the help of my classmates, we made a list of people from different grades. While making the list, we kept in mind people who had been to most of the games, who kept up with the team, and who understood just how big a Hail Mary actually was. I used a total of seven interviews with one of them being Chris Shoup, a former football coach who now commentates the games. The rest of the interviews are students from different grades.