Here's Some More Articles

I've gotten really bad about updating this. It's mostly because I have pretty much given up hope on finding a writing job after nearly a year and a half of looking and something tells me that all the customer service jobs I've been applying for probably don't care about my writing skills when all they need from me is the ability to answer a phone.

That said, I have been applying for writing jobs (when I find them) and so I should probably post some more links to some of my work. I won't be posting everything I've written since my last update in July because that will simply take too long.

As always, right click on the links and open them in a new tab or window. If you just click them, it will open in this window. And that's annoying. Nobody likes that.

Here we go.

Extraordinary Ventures Gets Extraordinary Make-Over

Construction and Home Sales Slow Across Orange County

North Carolinians Facing Illness Can Now "Wish Upon A Wedding"

East Chapel Hill High Earns Special Distinction, After Hard-Fought Battle

UNC Student Leaders Push For New Regulations on Local Taxi Prices

This next one took me almost 5 hours because I had to listen to 4 hours of audio from a Chapel Hill Town Council meeting. It's a good piece. Please read it.

Several Members of the Public Disagree With Charterwood Project



Hopefully you have found this blog helpful in your decision to hire me (or not, I guess). Thanks for looking.

Another Link Dump

More links. For whatever reason, not everything I write am I actually able to find on the radio station's web site, which is aggravating, but it is what it is. I'm an unpaid intern. Nobody cares, I get it. It's fine.

As always, right click and open in a new tab.


Date Set For Library Move To University Mall


UNC Sees Increase in GIfts for 2011 Fiscal Year


Local Salon Receives Honor From National Magazine

Brutal Heat, But No Water Shortage For Chapel Hill-Carrboro


New Poll Says Obama's NC Numbers Are Falling


Grant Encourages PlayMakers Outreach Program to Grow

Chapel Hill Police Department Promotes Two

Three UNC Professors Garner Prestigious Grants

That's all for now. Also, if this is your first time looking at my blog, I would highly recommend (beg) that you read some of my editorials and not just these little pieces I have to do at the station.

Thanks.

More Articles

As always, right click and open in new tab. And I just realized these are not in any sort of chronological order. I suppose it really doesn't matter, though, does it?

Chamber Hosts Women's Executive Breakfast

Chapel Hill Energy Efficiency Program Ending (For Now)

UNC Children's Hospital Gets Kid-Friendly "Facelift"

UNC Honors Blue Ribbon's Meyer

Phoenix Academy Hosts First Annual Field Day

NC Children's Hospital Ranks In America's Top 50

Blind Skier Subject Of Inspiring Film

Teens With Talent Needed For Carrboro Show

N.C. Voters Favoring Democrats In Latest Polling

Chapel Hill HS Wins National Environmental Award

Chapel Hill High School Hosts Oodles of Events For some reason, this one says I did the interview and not the story. I did the story, not the interview. The writing is mine. Not that it's great or anything.

NC Voters Want Local Control Of Billboards



That's all for now.

More Radio Articles

Here are some more articles I've written for 1360 WCHL in Chapel Hill.

Two notes: as always, right click the links and open in new tabs, otherwise you'll only be able to open one article at a time and then have to go back to this page to open another. Second note, if an article says "By Patrick Zarcone (additional reporting by...)" that means I wrote the article but someone else did the interview. Of course, I still have to edit the audio and pick out which clips to use and all that, it's just that someone else recorded it.

A lot of my articles are like that because I'm only at the station two days per week and they usually have me start working the backlog of all the interviews they have recorded. I do put out calls for interviews, but I'm usually working during the lunchtime/late afternoon hours and people aren't always around then to be interviewed.

Anyway. Newest to oldest:

Three Arrested For Shoplifting From Dillards

Quinn Matney Cited For Filing False Police Report

UNC Breaks Ground On New Hospital In Hillsborough

Be WISE And Make Your Home More Energy Efficient

El Centro Hispano To Host Art Exhibit

Wilson Library Revisits Civil War

Some Of Greenbridge May Be Safe From Foreclosure

Chamber Membership Drive Sets New State Record

Heroin And Pot Found In Dorms; 2 Students Charged

Chamber of Commerce Funding College Scholarships

Creek Action Tour Takes Over CH Saturday

Local Boy Scouts Raise Funds With BBQ

CH Scavenger Hunt Will Test Knowledge Of Town

FPG Child Care Center Will Close In 2013

Area YMCA’s Going Shoeless For A Cause

YMCA Bringing Light To Child Sexual Abuse

Golf And BBQ To Help Raise Funds For Hospital

Antonia's Opens For Business In Hillsborough

Chamber Teaching Public Policy On Friday

UNC Holds LGBT Elders Awareness Event


If by some chance you are looking at this and considering hiring me for some job I've applied for, please scroll down and read my editorials and articles from when I was still in college. Some of them are very good and all of them are more in-depth than these short pieces. Thanks!

More Articles

Here are some more articles I've written for 1360 WCHL...

Newest to Oldest (right click and open in new tab):

Tar Heels Spring Game Announced

Energy Providers See Rise In Radiation


Wilson Library To Host LeAnn Whites

Prescription Costs May Get Cheaper In Carrboro

Lost Art Rediscovered At University Mall

Kid Catches For Carolina Pediatrics

CROP Hunger Walk Is Sunday In Carrboro

More Radio Pieces

So I'm going to put up some more radio articles I've written. Some are re-tooled press releases, some are articles I wrote that someone else did the interviews for and I cut out the audio clips and wrote the article and some are articles that I wrote that I also did the interviews for and cut out the audio clips.

Every story that I'm going to post on here that includes audio, was audio that I edited, which is pretty cool since I had no idea how to do stuff like that before I started the internship.

I might miss a few little pieces I did that aren't really that important and it's definitely missing two pieces that I wrote, interviewed and edited myself that never got posted online. I'm pissed about those. I've talked to my "boss" about it and he doesn't know why they didn't get posted, but since the time has passed (and no one knows how to post a story into the backlog of stories), my articles won't be posted.

Also, some of these will have my name and some won't. Once again, I promise you I wrote the ones that don't have my name (most of them are just press release things, anyway). It wasn't until today that I actually found out what the protocol is for putting your name on a piece. From this point on, I will be following the protocol.

Anywhere, here they are. Note: Right click and open in a new tab, otherwise they'll open in this window. Kind of annoying, I know...

Newest to oldest:


Hog Day Is Moving And They Need Your Help


Fourth Positive Rabies Test Of 2011 In OC

Entwisle Named (Permanent) Vice Chancellor

Supreme Court Hears Arguments In OC Case

Third Annual Fair For Seniors To Be Held At UMall

OC Teens Encouraged To Kick Butt(s)

Ackland's Winter Exhibitions Close In Style

Food Cultures Symposium Coming To UNC

Operation Medicine Drop Set To Begin In NC

Puppet Show Helps CHFD Receive Safety Award

Members Announced For New UNC Sports Task Force

Google VP To Speak At UNC

Hillsborough Still Seeks Volunteers

YMCA Kicks Off We Build People Campaign

Cookbook Crafter Converses On Culinary Culture

Boy Scouts Powwow at Jordan Lake

Carolina Tiger Rescue Raises Over $50,000

Aveda Raises Over $5,000 For Girls On The Run

Rope Jumpers Hope To Hop Over The Competition

Special Art Collection Comes To United Methodist

National Council On Innovation Meeting At UNC

Positive Rabies Test Number Three in Orange County

Want Clean Drinking Water? Help Clean Jordan Lake

UNC Faculty, Staff Win Massey Awards


CH, Carrboro Unite For Energy Efficiency

Alcohol Sting Nets 20 Violators Downtown

Six Local HS Seniors Honored

CH To Relax Sign Regulations?

Swap Your Seeds At Carrboro Farmers' Market

Chapel Hill Goes Zumbatomic

Vegas, Baby! Casino For A Cause

UNC Dance Marathon About To Kick Off

Two More Cocaine Arrests In CH

Wildcats, Jaguars and Tigers, Oh My!

Chapel Hill Looks To Get Its Pulse Going

Minority Health Conference Is Back At UNC

UNC Running Back A.J. Blue Sees The Boys In Blue

I think next time I won't wait 2 months in between posts. It took me forever to find all these articles.

New Pieces

So I recently started an internship at News Talk 1360 WCHL in Chapel Hill, NC. It's not ideal since a) it's radio and I've never done that before, b) I'm not getting paid and c) it's like 25 miles from where I live...BUT, it's good experience, I'm learning something new, it's getting back into the writing mode (I hadn't written anything since May up until last Thursday) and it's getting a foot in the door of a communications-related industry, which is a positive thing.

It's a little bit weird though because the whole AP Style/Not AP Style thing is something I still haven't figured out. Writing for radio is definitely different. Some things are the same as a regular newspaper article and then others would get you fired from any self-respecting newspaper if you did them every single time you write, which you pretty much have to do when you're writing something that's going to be read on air.


Of course I still work at Harris Teeter, which is awful and doesn't pay the rent or the food or the bills, but whatever. (This is the part where anyone reading this offers me a job that pays more than $6,000/year, which is what I'm making at HT).

Anyway, here are some links to some articles I've written recently. They're not fantastic, but whatever. A couple also don't have my name, but I promise you I wrote them!

These are in order newest to oldest and quite a few of them are basically just re-tooled press releases, but I'm including them anyway.

Major Crime In Chapel Hill On The Decline

Blue Still Settling In As Police Chief

UNC Basketball Close To Aircraft Carrier Game

United Way Exceeds Fundraising Goal

Local Group To Hold Development Forum

Chapel Hill's Cedar Falls Park To Get Facelift

UNC Acer Nets Player Of The Week Honors

High School Basketball On Tap Friday

And that's all for now.