Persistence

After not receiving a phone call from the Daily Item for a week, I decided to take the initiative to call back and ask if they'd considered allowing me to cover an upcoming newsworthy (in my opinion) story. However, I was told that "if we wanted to cover that type of story, we'd probably just send one of our own [reporters]". As I am only a college freshman with no experience in journalism, I was hardly surprised by the editor's response. I was, however, surprised that the Daily Item is clearly not even considering covering this story. I then made a call to the Standard-Journal and was told to e-mail the editor. So, I'm still waiting to hear back from him. Even if he declines, I really hope that the Standard-Journal will at least send someone to cover the story.

[EDIT 6:30 PM]
The editor from the Standard-Journal e-mailed me back; I'm going to both cover the protest and play photographer! I'm both excited and nervous, having no journalistic experience . . . but that's what this is for, right? :]