writer & creator
ROBERT OVERMANN
EDITORIAL WRITING
I enjoy expressing my opinions about current events and issues.
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"Cut To The Chase:
Blessings and Obligations"
Missouri Farm Bureau
"Editor Discusses Lessons
Learned from MCMA"
Truman State University Index
While drafting a press release to promote the Index's accomplishments at the Missouri College Media Association, I kept wanting to editorialize about the merits of our staff and why I think our newspaper was able to achieve these honors.
It was an incredible honor for myself and my staff to receive the awards we did, and I wanted to show the Index's readership what went on behind the scenes.
Editorials typically run in the "Opinions & Editorials" section, but very occasionally are run on the front page when they relate closely to news content or during other special circumstances.
Summer 2014
Jefferson City, Missouri
April 2015
Kirksville, Missouri
Because of my interest in editorial writing, my supervisor asked if I wanted to write an editorial while at Missouri Farm Bureau. I jumped at the chance, and actually wrote a second about a month later.
As I explain in the editorial, I have never lived nor worked on a farm. I was an unlikely choice for an internship in the agriculture industry. However, I was eager to learn about the field and welcomed the challenge of writing about a subject that I had no prior experience with.
In the editorial, I acknowledge my lack of experience, but discuss my opportunity to provide a unique perspective to my readership. I was in the perfect position to serve as a communicator between rural and urban, farm and city.
This editorial was republished by multiple Missouri newspapers.
"Head to Head:
Proposition Would Unfairly
Burden Poor"
Truman State University Index
Although I had an ample staff of writers as the Index's 2012-13 Opinions & Editorials editor, I continued to write because I enjoy it.
In this editorial I engaged one of my staff in a Head to Head, where we debated a Missouri proposition that would have increased the state's tobacco tax.
Although I actually supported the increase, I agreed to play devil's advocate with the writer. Here I crafted an argument against the tax increase on the grounds that it was regressive: the majority of the tax burden would have been upon the poorest of Missourians.
In addition to writing the editorial, I designed this page. I did not design the infographic in the middle of the page.
November 2012
Kirksville, Missouri
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