Source Searching

Time and age have allowed the communication industry to increase onto a global scale, but with the positives come the negatives. The last two years were fiddled with reports about fake news and journalist losing credibility in the eyes of the public. Time and time again, publications have found themselves under the attack of the president's administration about there incompetency of producing "fake news". 

As a student of journalism, it is key to learn about the importance of sources. While planning out a story I set out to find a list of sources. I aim to find sources on different levels of difficulty as well as what they can add. 

As my article, about the Grand Canyon National Park operations during the partial government shutdown, is under works I continue to contact possible source.  This story about the government is completely different by all means as to what I am used to writing. In a sense it has been my most difficult piece, finding sources that will be willing to; 1. contact me, 2. take time to set up an interview, is interesting. 

While I have managed to find one source and have completed an interview, I am at loss for another. I have contacted Governor Doug Ducey's office with no response. My final resorts include contacting a political science professor and talk about the possibilities of another government shutdown if there is no agreement by Feb. 15th. Or finding a federal worker preferably in the Grand Canyon that was affected by the shutdown, and how this can help them if circumstances allow for another shutdown. Sources are a completely separate aspect but they are a fundamental that I must learn to handle properly. They make or break a journalist story.