When I was in junior high school, I started watching the National Basketball Association on TV and other sports games. The passion and hard work of the athletes attracted me, inspiring me to be a sports journalist. Also, basketball is the reason why I…
As more and more people continue to flock to the metaphorical trough that is journalism, the field is clearly becoming increasingly stratified — the top 20 percent is better than it has ever been, and the bottom 20 percent is as…
When I tell people I’m a journalism major, they automatically think I mean I want to be a reporter — convey the cold hard facts, the who, what, when, why of a crime scene, of breaking news. But that’s not…
I’m Erica Brancato and I am a journalism and communication double major. When I first came to UConn I headed straight toward The Daily Campus to get involved. I wanted to combine my passion for sports and writing and get…
For the past 3 years I’ve been completely consumed by the world of online journalism. Online fashion journalism, specifically. One of the main reasons I took this class (besides satisfying a requirement to obtain my degree, of course) was to learn more…
There is this unexplainable feeling that I get when I walk past the newsstands the first week of each month. The headlines scream beauty, fashion, sex, love, and all those other life lessons my 21-year-old self would want to indulge…
How do you obtain your daily serving of news? Do you set aside time each day to read printed newspapers or magazines or watch TV news broadcasts? If your answer is “not really,” then we have a lot in common.…
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