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What tools do you use to gather information for a story?

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How important is Social Media in your reporting for an environmental beat?

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As an environmental reporter, would you consider yourself an environmentalist? How do you view the issue of climate change and how we are handling it as a nation ?

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Do you feel like we are winning the war on the environment?

What was the worst natural disaster that you covered?

Have you always wanted to be an environmental journalist?

Is it frustrating to see people disregard the science of climate change?

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Ellen Eldridge:
How has COVID changed the landscape of Health Care and Public Safety journalism?

What is the most melancholic/impactful story you have covered so far?

You often write about Mental Health, COVID has affected many individuals' mental health but how has it affected you as a journalist?

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1. As a healthcare reporter, how has your perspective on your job and its influence in your life/worldview changed from before, during, and "after" the pandemic?

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Do you feel it is important to have positive relationships with your contacts and/or sources?

Would you prefer to write about something else?

Have you ever covered sports?

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Halle Parker:
You played soccer in college, were an Athletics Communications Intern at Longwood University and a Sports Editor at The Rotunda, did any part of you want to consider doing sports journalism?

What advice would you give to future journalists trying to discover their own beats?

On your personal website, you have a quote here, “Never Settle for the Surface” what does that mean to you as a journalist?

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Ellen Eldrige

1. What made the topic of Health Care stand out to you when deciding what you wanted to write about?

2. What has been the most difficult story you’ve written/covered during your career?

3. What advice would you give to a young journalist who may not know what they are interested in writing about yet?

4. If you could give your 20-year-old self advice, what would it be and why?

5. How has your coverage of mental health and addiciation changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic?

6. What is the hardest part of reporting on mental health/ addiction? Does it ever take a toll on your own mental health?

7. If you could go back to college or the beginning of your career, is there anything that you would do differently? Do you think that you would still choose be a health care reporter?

Halle Parker

1. Many of your most recent stories have been in relation to Hurricane Ida, what was the biggest environmental impact you covered that was a result of Ida?

2. What drew you to write about the environment as your beat?

3. Throughout your career, what was your favorite or the coolest story you covered?

4. What was the biggest difference between journalism classes and then going into field reporting in the real world?

5. Knowing everything you know now, is there anything you would change about your career path?

6. What is the most difficult story you have encountered during your time as an environment reporter?

7. Does covering environmental news take a toll at all on you mentally when you see the effects of environmental issues especially in a place known for its intense weather

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1. Ellen Eldridge

1. What was it like switching from breaking news reporting to beat reporting?

2. How has a job changed since the start of the pandemic?

3. How often are your story deadlines?

4. What does a typical work day look like for you?

5. Where do you look for story pitches in health care?

6. Can you tell us about your project on school-based behavioral health? How did that project come about?

7. At the AJC, how were you able to write up to seven news articles in a day?

8. What advice do you have for us as college students pursuing journalism- how did you get ahead in college?

2. Halle Parker

1. What was it like covering such a significant environmental disaster as Hurricane Ida?

2. What made you want to become an environment reporter?

3. What was the most difficult reporting experience you had?

4. How do you balance breaking news and disasters with longer, in-depth stories?

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Ellen Eldridge

1. How do you think the healthcare workout burnout, and covid fatigue affected patients in those hospitals?