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Marc Carig
University of Nevado at Reno
Reporter, Sports
A few days before I officially landed this gig,
an editor at the paper gave me a ring.
He sounded a bit confused.
“So, you’re 26, huh?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And you’re a graduate student at the
University of Nevada, Reno?”
“Actually, undergrad, sir. I’m done in May.”
“Why the hell is it taking
you so long to get through journalism school? Is there some prison time
we need to know about?”
“Do four semesters of Spanish count?”
“This says you’ve interned
or worked at five newspapers. Is that right?”
“Yeah, the Contra Costa Times, the
Monterey County Herald, the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the Reno Gazette-Journal
and the Boston Globe. I loved every minute.”
“This thing also says you want to
be a sportswriter.”
“Yes, sir. I grew up watching the A’s back home in the
Bay Area. The dream? To become the next Rickey Henderson. The problem? I throw
like Florence Henderson. So, sportswriting seemed to be the natural fit. Like
I said, I’ve loved every
minute.”
“Favorite
journalist?”
“You, sir.”
“Nice try. No, really.”
“Mike Royko.”
“And I also hear you’re a golfer. What’s your handicap?”
“Putting,
chipping and driving, sir.”
“We’ll have to get back to you.” |
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Lenore Cho
Copy Editor, National and Sports
Smith College
Three things have colored me: I grew up in New Orleans,
I go to an all-women’s college and I’m equally
passionate about politics and sports. But journalism always
defined me. I got my start in journalism as a high school
summer intern at my hometown paper, the Times-Picayune, in
2000, and later worked for three years as a staff writer
and copy editor for the Sophian, the weekly student newspaper
at Smith College.
I got hooked on copy editing as an intern at the Daily
Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass. (fall 2003), and
did other internships at the Times-Picayune (summer 2004)
and the Boston Globe (summer 2005). Since October, I have
served as an assistant editor at ESPN.com in Bristol, Conn.
In addition to sports, I also worked in the press office
of Sen. John Kerry’s presidential
campaign in Washington (fall 2004) and interned in the offices
of Sens. Mary Landrieu and Kerry. I speak French and Korean
and expect to receive a bachelor’s degree in government
and history from Smith in May. |
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Amanda Edwards
Copy Editor, Metro
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Shalom! I hail from Nebraska, and I interned with the Denver Post last summer as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern.
I have worked at the Daily Nebraskan, my university’s
independent daily, for nearly four years as a copy editor,
copy chief and now slot editor. I am working on my
senior honors thesis, which consists of editing stories – one on the Platte River and one on the Sri Lanka tsunami – for two
in-depth-report magazines and putting together a working model of how best to execute such reports in the future. When I’m not spending my Saturdays at the journalism college, I’m
attempting to keep up with my biblical Hebrew studies.
My eventual goal is to translate Hebrew texts. I’ve gotten involved in the local slam poetry scene, which has given me an interesting look at literary art in a performance setting. I’ll be graduating in May with a bachelor’s in journalism, and I’d like to end with the phrase that got me where I am today:
“Copy editing is the essence of my being.” |
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Jeffrey Ghassemi
Reporter, Health
University of California at Irvine
The badge on my truncated white coat reads
“Student Physician,” a euphemism for “Medical Student,” which some may say is really a euphemism for
“Student Masochist.” As a first-year student at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine,
I can say that med school isn’t that bad and that the perks are great: celebrity status in the school library, Sunday nights with “Gray’s Anatomy” (the book, not the TV show) and a first-name relationship with every barista in town.
Before med school, I spent six years at the University of California at Los Angeles, where I earned my BA in political science and master’s in public health. I became
increasingly interested in journalism, however, after
witnessing the growing challenges to responsible health reporting. I served as a columnist for the Science & Health Section of The Daily Bruin and covered the ever-contentious stem cell debate in Washington, D.C., as an intern for the National Health Council. I’ve also published in both medical and social science journals, using print media as a means of interpreting health information for the public.
I guess that makes me a “Student Physician-Journalist.” |
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Mark Gong
Photographer
University of Maryland
I was definitely interested in taking great photos long before I was interested in journalism. The more I took pictures, the more I wanted to poke my nose into stranger and darker places. That’s how I got into photojournalism. It gave me a reason to explore the lives of strangers and tell their stories. Sometimes it’s fun; sometimes it’s not, but it is always
interesting. I grew up in Beijing, China, where most of my family still live, and I immigrated to the States at age 9.
I applied to the Diamondback, my college newspaper,
and found like-minded photographers who shared my
passion for storytelling and picture-taking. Since then,
I’ve done freelance work in the United States and abroad.
I will graduate from the University of Maryland in May.
My other passions include traveling, salsa dancing and
learning new languages. Two years ago, I thought
I was destined for a life of cubicles and computers.
Now, I know that as long as I have a camera and my curiosity,
no walls can hold me back. |
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Philip Gray
Copy Editor, National and Foreign
Wichita State University
For one of my first journalism classes, Opinion Writing,
I was asked to write an editorial about necrotizing fasciitis, “flesh-eating bacteria.” It began, “Dunk your babies in Clorox!” (My professor declined to grade it because it was
“so completely inappropriate.”) From this story, you can learn at least a couple of things about me: that leads are important to me and that I can tolerate an exclamation point now and again. I am from Kansas and will graduate in May from Wichita State University. My first copy-editing position was at my high school paper. I also wrote and edited for my college paper and wrote for a small-town weekly.
Since 2002, I have worked as a copy editor at the
Wichita Eagle. I’ve taken six months off: three in the summer of 2003 for a Dow Jones internship at the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer and three in the summer of 2005 for an internship
at the Dallas Morning News. |
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Megan Greenwell
Reporter, City Desk
Barnard College, Columbia University
As a 15-year-old reporter for my high school newspaper,
I stumbled upon an indentured-servitude ring that eventually landed three people in jail. The Berkeley High Jacket became the first nonprofessional winner of the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists’ Journalist of the Year award because of that story. But more importantly, that story got me addicted to the adrenaline rush of getting a scoop. The same year, I got to cover the arson that burned down a third of our school, and I became fluent in Spanish after living for three months in Nicaragua. My parents, a flooring contractor and an Episcopal priest, moved our family to 13 houses in five metropolitan areas in Oregon and California, but I still
consider myself “from” Berkeley. I was recruited to Columbia as a foil fencer and helped the team win the 2003 Ivy League championship before leaving the team to work full-time for the Columbia Daily Spectator. I served as the news editor and editor in chief of the newspaper, launching new weekly sports and entertainment sections, and a weekly Spanish supplement that made Spec the first bilingual
college daily in the country. After my freshman year,
I covered everything from Green Party politics to a 24-hour hostage standoff for the Berkeley Daily Planet. Since then, I’ve worked at the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Blade in Toledo, Ohio. I’m a baseball fanatic still waiting for the day that my beloved Oakland A’s win the World Series again. |
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Kim Hart
Reporter, Financial
University of Maryland
This spring, I was assistant editor for a bureau of the
News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., which is where I grew up. Last year, I was an intern in the Baltimore Sun’s features department and wrote for American Journalism Review. In the fall, I covered health issues and the Maryland General Assembly for Capital News Service, a wire service run by the University of Maryland. As an undergraduate at the University of Florida, I was on the staff of the student
newspaper, the Independent Florida Alligator,
and freelanced for the Gainesville Sun. I studied marketing and literature in London three summers ago. I graduated in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism,
and I received a master’s in journalism from
the University of Maryland in December. |
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Bravetta Hassell
Reporter, Style
Hampton University
Since early adolescence, I have made it a point to be the one asking all the questions. Some may call me nosy, but after years of study and practice, I call myself a journalist.
I worked last summer as an intern reporter at the Knoxville News Sentinel. In the spring of 2005, I attended the New York Times Student Journalism Institute in New Orleans.
The previous summer, I participated in the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire Short Course in Washington, D.C., then worked as an intern at the Washington Afro American
newspaper. I served as editor in chief of the student
newspaper at Hampton University, the Hampton Script,
for the fall 2005 semester. I’m a volunteer at a local
preschool and a freelance writer for the Black College Wire.
I have a huge interest in social issues that affect young adults. I expect to graduate from Hampton in May 2007. |
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