The meet the pro's event on 4/25 was not a simple meet n' greet, but an informative look into two professional's work, and a preview of one pulitzer upstart's upcoming story. The main focus is on Melissa Turley and Allison Shelley, and the women issues they focused on in the world. Shelley, a veteran in the field, went to India to report on the issue of Chaupadi, the quarantine of women on their period, and the horrors of the adversity they face. Through vivid images, and first hand interviews, she paints a horrific picture of old world cruelty.
Melissa Turley however, the last year winner from the pulitzer center, took her reporting skills to South Africa. She told the story of the true suffering in South Africa, and how a new piece of legislation threatens to combine traditional law with national law, which, considering traditional law considers women as objects, would be detrimental to female rights. She shows a portrait of South Africa that is not usually bragged about when talking on the subject of the numerous possibilities in the up and coming future.
The last speaker, Devon Smith, is this years winner from WCC who will be reporting on the schism in Ireland created by two major religions that are splitting the populous. She will b looking into the matter of why random acts of violence are as extreme as they are, and why in this guerilla war, the citizens are being targeted. This day was not an advice panel for up and coming reporters, but rather a real life demonstration of what these reporters go through to popularize some of the most dangerous stories, and how much of them goes into the piece, to give it a life of it's own.
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