Oct.+4

Today Alex Newman, an alum of the Reynolds School of Journalism, spoke to the class about what it was like to be the editor of the Sagebrush, the editing process at USA Today where she worked for four years, her views on how journalism is changing and advice for journalism students.

Todays class was very insightful. Alex helped me realize different ways to get involved with journalism more, where to get a good start with journalism, and what's great about journalism. I liked having Alex come and talk to the class. I feel that having someone come and talk to the class helps me understand journalism better than just reading about it from the chapters of our books. I am interested in becoming an editor one day and having Alex explain how editing a paper works was also very helpful. I was the editor for my high schools yearbook and I do understand how editing works and I understand how Alex felt having to do almost all of the jobs when you're an editor. I do however, think that editing a paper is a little different than editing a yearbook. -Marissa Skinner