Tag / journalism
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Living and learning in Troy, one year later
Last year, right before I moved away from Boston to take a new job in Albany, I tried write something that captured the sadness, but also the hope and opportunity, of starting anew. I got stuck a few paragraphs in, because I didn’t know what it meant to move on my own free will, to…
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Navigating the Internet’s Baffling Backend
Last weekend I was taking a bus home to New Jersey for a weekend of camping that would be ostensibly free of technology. But as I browsed the Internet on shoddy Bolt Bus Wi-Fi while sitting in the purgatory that is New Jersey Turnpike Friday night traffic, I got an unexpected text from our multimedia editor…
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Why I’m Still Majoring in Journalism
On a sunny afternoon during my freshman year, I met with an advertising professor to – wait, no, maybe it was sophomore year? Actually, more likely both? I’ve been struggling with my major for as long as I’ve been in college. Conversations with advertising, graphic design and journalism professors are a common feature of my…
