I’m Featured on College Media Matters : D

Dan Reimold of College Media Matters contacted me a while ago for an interview – He posted a J-Student profile on me July 11.

Amusingly enough- I’ve checked his website regularly for the last few months to see when it would go up, and then the week I forget to check- it goes up! Oh the wonders of Googling yourself and finding out where your name is online…

I’m tremendously flattered by the profile and excited at how it came out. I’m surprised by the description of me having “reporting wunderkind status,” but I’m pleased by that as well.

I also love his intro-

“Rachael Dickson is an award-winning, professionally-trained harpist.  Over the years, she has even played “rock harp” in a few bars, which immediately makes her cooler than you.”

Hah. I don’t mention much about the harp here, but yes, I have studied harp since I was in 4th grade with some excellent teachers, all directly in the Carlos Salzedo line. I won a harp solo competition in uhm…8th grade, I think, and made All-State Orchestra three years in a row in high school. I also played with the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Philharmonic in junior high, GDYO in high school, and have twice performed with GDYO Wind Symphony as a guest (although curiously enough, I actually never auditioned for GDYO- they just tended to call my teacher when they needed a harpist). I also put on a full-length junior and senior recital. At this point I play very little, only really at church occasionally, but it is still very much part of my life.

Here are some old pics from my high school senior recital- me playing a duet with a friend, All my friends that came to the recital, and a fantastic Harp cake the baker for my sister’s wedding made for me. : D

College Media Matters really is a great website that looks at a lot of college journalism issues with great depth and insight. I encourage y’all to go look at other posts on the site as well. : )

In Other News:

I’ve been crazy lax about updating this website the last couple weeks. I’ve been unhappy with my lack of focus in posts lately- I’m working up plans to revamp the website with a new design (something more than a blog) and a new schedule of alternating posts on journalism and law. I definitely want this website to be more than just my place to show off- I’d like it to be something that’s actually interesting and useful for other people.

You can expect an exciting relaunch of FourPointReport.com in the next few weeks. I know I can’t wait

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