2008 Woodie Awards
Not another corny goodbye
Katie Khouri
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: Opinion
Originally published: 4/26/07 at 7:17 PM EST
Last update: 4/26/07 at 7:16 PM EST
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Thank you general public for letting me harass you with my camera for four years.
I always tried to get your good side.
It has been a good run, and it's time to leave.
I've never been a huge fan of the self-indulgent goodbye rant where the journalist goes on about their own life as if it held some interest to the reader.
I wouldn't go that route.
These senior columnists go on about their memories - I mean, who really wants to read about how I entered Cardinal Points clueless and walked out with a passion for photojournalism.
Readers don't want to see me thank my fellow photographers - Holly, Tetsuro, Shumpei, Jennie, Andrei, Anubhav, Amber, Heather - for making the photo department badass, or Huong - my journalism partner-in-crime.
Congratulations to the current editorial board for putting out some of the best issues I've seen in the last couple years.
As if writing that Dr. Davis and Murphy changed my collegiate life by instilling a lifelong passion for well researched and creative journalism in me is important to the reader.
Good thing this isn't one of those irritating columns because it would have to include a part where I thanked Rob Fountain and Mike Betts at the Press-Republican for putting up with the car-less intern.
How about those columnists that take this space to thank their family and friends?
Writing thank you mom and pop for supporting me in every way, I hope I make it up to you when I win the Pulitzer.
Or props to Darcy, Samsonite, Jackie, and Cristina for understanding what the words "I can't, I have a CP assignment" meant when I said it to them, and them still choosing to hang out with me. I'm really glad I avoided that whole stereotypical goodbye thing.
I always tried to get your good side.
It has been a good run, and it's time to leave.
I've never been a huge fan of the self-indulgent goodbye rant where the journalist goes on about their own life as if it held some interest to the reader.
I wouldn't go that route.
These senior columnists go on about their memories - I mean, who really wants to read about how I entered Cardinal Points clueless and walked out with a passion for photojournalism.
Readers don't want to see me thank my fellow photographers - Holly, Tetsuro, Shumpei, Jennie, Andrei, Anubhav, Amber, Heather - for making the photo department badass, or Huong - my journalism partner-in-crime.
Congratulations to the current editorial board for putting out some of the best issues I've seen in the last couple years.
As if writing that Dr. Davis and Murphy changed my collegiate life by instilling a lifelong passion for well researched and creative journalism in me is important to the reader.
Good thing this isn't one of those irritating columns because it would have to include a part where I thanked Rob Fountain and Mike Betts at the Press-Republican for putting up with the car-less intern.
How about those columnists that take this space to thank their family and friends?
Writing thank you mom and pop for supporting me in every way, I hope I make it up to you when I win the Pulitzer.
Or props to Darcy, Samsonite, Jackie, and Cristina for understanding what the words "I can't, I have a CP assignment" meant when I said it to them, and them still choosing to hang out with me. I'm really glad I avoided that whole stereotypical goodbye thing.
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