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Lights, camera, practice: A Final Four trip to remember
When you are a fledgling journalist, you don’t get many chances like these. I knew this three months ago, walking into Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., for the fourth time in two years. All three previous trips were for CMU football games as a beat writer, including two Motor City Bowls. This trip was similar in [...]
Continue reading...5 feature/profile reporting tips for beginning journalists
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sometime last Spring, Central Michigan Life’s adviser, Neil Hopp, asked a coworker, Dan Monson, and I to spend some time working with some of the newer sports reporters on how to write extensive feature and/or profile stories. The request came after our Hearst wins – Monson placed 14th in Personality/Profile Writing for “Hidden pain” and [...]
Continue reading...A beautiful, sunny day in Grand Haven, Michigan
Saturday, July 11, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +9 Photo Having been born and raised in Saginaw, on the eastern side of Michigan, I have not had the chance to experience much of what West Michigan has to offer until this summer. It is pretty safe to say I was missing out on some of Michigan’s finer places. A summer day in Grand Haven [...]
Continue reading...“The shot that got away” – why, as primarily a writer, I now truly respect a photojournalist’s job
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Photography always has been an essential part of a newspaper. The main photo on a front page usually is the first thing you see when you pass a news stand. Photos give pages personality. They accent the reporting. But in working in newsrooms the last four years or so, I’ve learned that many times, the photo [...]
Continue reading...Updates… and that’s all for now
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +6 Photo +1 Page Design Just a quick update on what I posted earlier today. My photos are from the MLK March on CMU’s campus last January. (Expect cutlines for all the photos soon, by the way, just haven’t gotten to that yet) The design is a food cover I worked on Monday and Tuesday. My hope [...]
Continue reading...Who am I?
The future of news media has never been more exciting to me.
I am a multifaceted young journalist currently working as online sports producer at The Arizona Republic. I interned at The Grand Rapids Press over the summer, and previously served as 2009-10 editor in chief of Central Michigan Life, the award-winning student publication of Central Michigan University.
I was named 2009 College Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association, and graduated from CMU in May 2010 with a degree in journalism and media design. I spent the summer of 2009 at The Grand Rapids Press as a copy desk intern, and summer 2008 at The Saginaw News as a metro reporting intern.
Monday, July 20, 2009
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