{"id":11986,"date":"2018-03-13T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2018-03-13T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:51:02","slug":"working-photojournalist-tells-students-to-challenge-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/11986\/showcase\/working-photojournalist-tells-students-to-challenge-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Working photojournalist tells students to challenge themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy Vasquez<\/a> is a video editor with the Bay Area News Group, with his work appearing in its publications including the San Jose Mercury News and the East Bay Times. Vasquez was taking photographs for an ongoing story on a number of local \u201cDreamers\u201d: \u201cStuck in limbo, DACA recipients are consumed with fear and anxiety,\u201d<\/a> when we caught up with him on Feb. 21.<\/p>\n

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Q: How and when did you started with journalism?<\/em><\/p>\n

Vasquez:<\/strong> Since 2013. I started at community college, at Mt. San Antonio College, with the school paper, taking Journalism 101, the whole deal. I wanted to be a sports reporter; that was my main thing\u2026 And then I started into other things, you start covering other subjects at your school, your politics, regulations. Afterwards, I transferred to San Jose State, did some good stuff there, graduated in 2015. After that I went to the New York Times Journalism institute. And then I had an internship in south Florida, was there for three months and then I got hired \u2013 for a year at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. A job opportunity came up here at the (San Jose) Mercury News. I was familiar with the community \u2026 I\u2019ve been here since September.<\/p>\n

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Q: What is your average day on the job like? <\/em><\/p>\n

Vasquez:<\/strong> I\u2019m on the visual side, so I do video packages, take pictures \u2013 photojournalism, video journalism. Sometimes (the editors) will have something for you. Today, one of our reporters was doing a story on a lot of the DACA recipients and what the March 5 deadline is going to mean to them, including one of the (students) here. So I\u2019m here, try to be a fly on the wall as much as I can be, take some pictures, also some portraits.<\/p>\n

Other times, it (might) be an investigative piece where we\u2019re working for months on end\u2026 There\u2019s a story about a girl who ingested meth in Oakland<\/a> who was sent back to the foster home where she ingested meth. So that took months of getting court records and stuff like that.<\/p>\n

It depends, sometimes you\u2019re working on a project for a long time, sometimes you get a day assignment like this and sometimes you\u2019re doing a feature. A lot of different stuff.<\/p>\n

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Q: What is your advice for student journalists?<\/em><\/p>\n

Vasquez:<\/strong> I would say always be prepared. I\u2019m always reading the news, always knowing what\u2019s going on in your community. For example, just the other night I covered all sports \u2013 it was basketball and figure skating. So I\u2019ve never covered figure skating, so I\u2019m up all night, looking up all the terminologies. And here, I have to have a story about DACA recipients. So if you\u2019re not an expert, you should at least be familiar with a lot of things.<\/p>\n

So always being prepared, and also I would say always challenge yourself.\u201d Especially when you are a student. If you notice a reporter, someone in the local news, like, for example the Chronicle, and you notice, oh man, they\u2019re getting out their stories so fast. So challenge yourself too. One of those days, just try to emulate what they do.<\/p>\n

Seek mentors. If it\u2019s reaching out to a photographer you follow or a reporter you follow. Be like, \u201cHey, can you look at my stuff? I\u2019m a journalism student at San Jose City.\u201d Most times than not they\u2019re happy to give you feedback, criticism, what you need to get better.<\/p>\n

And besides that, just work hard. Don\u2019t be lazy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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