BY Alissa Skelton
J Alumni News staff
My first opportunity to write for the New York Times was a stroke of luck. I was in the right place — Arkansas — at the right time, when the New York…
Miss Nebraska-USA faces personal grief
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by CAROLINE BRAUER
When Belinda Wright left small-town Nebraska for a UNL education in public relations she had no idea she would be representing herself and her state on a national stage. In May 2010 Wright had the opportunity to…
Inside out, upside down
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by JAMIE SWINARSKI
One decision may certainly throw you; turn your life inside out, upside down. This was made literal for senior broadcasting major Garret Durst, around midnight on August 9, 2009.
Earlier that day, Durst had nothing…
Washington Post’s Emily Ingram credits ACES with helping her make smooth transition from college to work
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by SUE BURZYNSKI BULLARD
As a University of Nebraska student, Emily Ingram was one of just five students nationally to win an ACES scholarship last April.
Just a few months later, she was hired as an overnight producer at
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 —…
A new twist on distance ed
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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…
From master of the story to master of arts
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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…
Dreaming of Dave
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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…
