By Brianny Aybar, UConn Journalism May 6, 2019 Social media has become an essential part of many Americans daily lives. What once was waking up and reading the daily newspaper or watching TV has now become waking up and immediately checking Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Social media has changed the way readers find and consume news,…
By Sean Boyle | UConn Journalism | May 3, 2019 A self-proclaimed “email nerd,” Hayley Tafuro (UConn Journalism ’16) is paving the way for aspiring journalists to break into the industry and rise at a major sports station. While Tafuro always knew she wanted a career covering sports, she never could have imagined reporting to NBC…
By Maya A. Moore, UConn Journalism | April 26, 2019 Veteran journalist Stan Simpson is skilled in the art of people, a characteristic that undoubtedly rings true when watching the host of Fox 61’s Real People with Stan Simpson on Sunday mornings. He welcomes viewers with his signature “Alright folks,” in a resounding voice and wide smile…
By Sydney Mazur, UConn Journalism April 19, 2019 Meet Carlos Virgen, the digital news director at The Day in New London, Connecticut. He is not your traditional journalist. Originally from California, Virgen studied graphic design and worked in a law firm until one day a friend who published a Los Angeles independent alt-weekly hired him as…
By Abigail Brone, UConn Journalism April 12, 2019 Tom Maroney never planned to work as a journalist, he just liked telling stories and using a camera to do so. Maroney, a New York native, has worked as a cameraman at Fox 61 news for a decade. “As college students tend to do, I took a left…
By Sean Boyle | UConn Journalism | April 5, 2019 Growing up, WNPR’s Frankie Graziano always dreamed of covering sports and never wavered in his determination to become a reporter. Along the way, Graziano realized that his passion for covering sporting events was rooted in the personal stories he got to share and the relationships forged with sources and listeners…
By Maya A. Moore | UConn Journalism | March 29, 2019 Claire Smith credits her mother’s infectious love of the baseball and the enduring story of Jackie and Rachel Robinson with inspiring her 37-year-long career as a sports journalist. “I always knew that baseball was a passion, from childhood,” she said. “I just fell in love with…
By Abigail Brone | March 8, 2019 Matt DeRienzo began working as a journalist the day after his eighteenth birthday. “I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper in Maine about a drunk driver that hit and killed a friend of mine’s mother. I argued the bar that served the driver should get…
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As a journalist, some stories will be more challenging than others, but that never stops Tatiana Flowers, a young reporter and Hearst Journalism Fellow at The Hour in Norwalk. Flowers found her passion for journalism during college despite her initial desire to become a veterinarian. Writing came naturally, and eventually, she perfected her multimedia skills, including in video…