Bienvenue!

Hi, my name is Maï­na Durafour and I am a senior at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut major­ing in jour­nal­ism.

My aspi­ra­tions are to become a reporter in the cul­tur­al field and pro­duce doc­u­men­taries, pod­casts, or any­thing involv­ing audio/visual sto­ry­telling. I have a pro­found inter­est in peo­ple’s sto­ries, lit­er­a­ture, his­to­ry and art. I’m also devel­op­ing a strong inter­est in envi­ron­men­tal journalism.

I’m the assis­tant news direc­tor of UCon­n’s stu­dent-run tele­vi­sion sta­tion, UCTV, with a spe­cial­iza­tion in video edit­ing. I’m also involved in the uni­ver­si­ty’s stu­dent news­pa­per, The Dai­ly Cam­pus.

View some of the reportage and writ­ing I have done for those out­lets or as part of my jour­nal­ism coursework.

I grew up in France until my 20’s and moved to the Unit­ed States with my father to com­plete my stud­ies. I began learn­ing about jour­nal­ism when I was 15 years old dur­ing a short intern­ship at France 3 Midi-Pyrénées, a tele­vi­sion sta­tion in my home coun­try. There, I engaged with many news pro­fes­sion­als and dis­cov­ered the many ways of being a jour­nal­ist. It was quite strik­ing to learn the vari­ety of jobs in jour­nal­ism, each with their own respon­si­bil­i­ties and par­tic­u­lar skills sets.

In my free time, I like to go out­side and walk. I enjoy read­ing books with a good cup of tea when the weath­er becomes drea­ry, or out­side in a com­fy chair on warm, sun­ny day. I also love cats, the smell of books, cook­ing, watch­ing doc­u­men­taries and tak­ing pic­tures of pret­ty things.

Con­tact me at mainaa.durafour@gmail.com, on LinkedIn or Insta­gram.