Fresh Voices

Jared Goyette has been reporting full-time since March, after some intern work at the Philly City Paper. He's in his first newspaper job at the bi-weekly Press and Standard in Walterboro, S.C.



He was at Tom French's week-long narrative seminar at Poynter a few weeks ago. He sent me this deadline narrative for feedback and agreed to let me post it here.



Check it out:



Mary McClam and Mary Freeman, with white hotel towels wrapped around their shoulders, sat on two beds in a room at the Quality Inn on Jefferies Boulevard in Walterboro. A Bible lay on McClam's bed, along with notes for a presentation she planned to give the next day at a Pentecostal woman's conference. Their hair was…