By CAMERON KLITZ
J Alumni News staff
Discovering what one wants to do after college graduation can be tough. As a double major in journalism and theater, Mai Mijoe Sahiouni wasn’t sure about her career goals —…
By MOLLIE ADAM
J Alumni News staff
During spring semester, 13 students were enrolled in the first half of a yearlong depth report on Bolivia — but one of the students was never in class.
The “absent” student was…
By COLIN CLIFFORD
J Alumni News staff
Imagine being given an assignment on something you know nothing about. A project so demanding that it’s a government matter. Now imagine being a sophomore in college and having this…
By ELIZABETH STEHLIK
J Alumni News staff
It’s late on a Wednesday evening, and Les Rose is making the two-hour drive back to his home in Los Angeles. He shifts a little in his seat, stretching his shoulders, which…
It sounds like a dream: an internships on “Late Night with David Letterman.” But for one journalism graduate student, the dream has come true. Carson Stokebrand, in just his second semester of graduate school at CoJMC, is in New York,…
By KIONNA COMER
J Alumni News staff
Matt Buxton’s deep interest in telling stories has paid off in a big way for the senior news-editorial major.
Last summer, Buxton learned new ways to tell stories by participating in the…
By CASSIE FLEMING
J Alumni News staff
Open a newspaper’s international section to find articles on the insurgency in Afghanistan. Click on a news site’s “world” section to find a story on violence in Iraq.
International reporting is often…
By DAMIEN CROGHAN
J Alumni News staff
Since Sen. J. William Fulbright led the move to establish the Fulbright Scholars program in 1946, about 300,000 scholars from 155 nations have participated. This year, for the first time,…
By BRITTNEY SCHUESSLER
J Alumni News staff
When Natalia Ledford decides to do something, she doesn’t let anything stop her.
In middle school she played football. “I’ve always had this weird thing where I like to prove people wrong,”…
By CARSON VAUGHAN
J Alumni News staff
“This time we had the hometown advantage,” joked “500 Days of Summer” actor Geoffrey Arend. “My parents were there!”
One by one, the illuminated buttons died as I rose to the 14th…
