Election day is here

Students from the Mass Communications, News Gathering and Writing, and Publications classes at Eastfield College are teaming with The Et Cetera student newspaper to cover today's election. In fact, The Et Cetera will function as a daily newspaper today, covering the elections and producing a special four-page section with results that will be distributed when our printer delivers them to campus tomorrow morning at about 11:30.

Mass Comm students will be visiting local polling places this afternoon, and News Gathering and Publications students, along with Et Cetera staffers, will cover the Democratic and Republican watch parties in Dallas tonight. They will be blogging and tweeting from their locations, as well as writing stories for tomorrow's print edition.

This is an amazing opportunity for these students to experience daily journalism in a very real-word setting. They will be interviewing candidates alongside seasoned reporters and filing stories on deadline, just as their professional counterparts will. 

Please follow our students work here, starting later this afternoon as well as @TheEtCetera on Twitter.