Princess Diana of Wales

In the second unit of the Journalism class, we focused on sound. We looked at a lot of different types of podcast about different things and began to gather different tips and ways to talk about a topic with just your words. For the action project we were tasked with finding someone influential from the 20th century and creating a podcast about them. We had to interview two people and find sound clips of the person we chose. For my project I chose Princess Diana of Wales. Something that I enjoyed about this project was the freedom to choose whoever I wanted from the 20th century. Something that was hard for me was finding which sound clips I wanted to use for this project. I am really happy with how my project turned out and I hope you enjoy it.
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