Teenage fashion bloggers turn coveted editors during Fashion Week

The other day my sister and I were having a discussion on how we’re sort of the ‘in-between’ generation when it comes to the World Wide Web. As a 25-year old and 23-year-old, we’re old enough to remember a world where the Internet did not dominate our lives but young enough to be completely inundiated [...]

Boy, have J-schools advanced in a few years

I started my first day of class as a continuing student yesterday and whoa, have journalism classes changed since I left in ‘06. When I entered college in ‘02 (which is really not that long ago), my Journalism professors weren’t using digital media and online technology as much. I remember thinking my classes were pretty [...]

The evolvement of Journalism Schools: Twitter Classes

I’ve been a twitter skeptic from the beginning. Yes, businesses can greatly benefit from it, but facebook updates and twitter don’t seem that different to me. I use twitter for my wedding blog to garner more traffic and page views but honestly, my blog’s facebook profile gets me more than triple the amount of traffic [...]

Corporate-Happy

It’s week three of my brand spankin’ new job and I’m happy. I had forgotten what corporate perks, a steady paycheck and health benefits felt like! 
I think I’ll always struggle with the indecision of whether I want the creative freedom of a full-time journalist or the easier lifestyle of a media employee but I think [...]

Down but definitely not out not

The freelance job didn’t extend my gig until next month; my last day is tomorrow. They hired a bunch of interns (for free, of course) so they can make do without me. To be honest, I’m quite relieved simply because this job was boring and drained me. It had no writing or editing involved, only [...]

Is grad school really not worth it?

I know the general consensus is that if you majored in Journalism in college, getting a master’s degree in Journalism right away is probably a waste and you should be out there working and interning instead. But, what if  you have experience in the industry and would still like to go back to school. Do [...]

Summer Options

I like having a well-laid out plan, even if I don’t always stick to it. My freelance job is about to end in another two-three weeks and I have no idea what I’m going to do afterwards. I got lucky with this job and got it a week after the previous one  ended but summer [...]

Goals

I’m on deadline tonight and feeling quite restless. I just can’t seem to get working on any of the articles I have due this week. To revive my writing spirits, I thought I’d write out some near-future goals (I love lists!).
- Work up the nerve to finally pitch three feature stories that I’ve done research [...]

Nylon Scare

Gawker gave me quite a scare today when it posted that Nylon is going digital! Actually, only new subscribers are going to get a digital format of the magazine. Read the post here.
I don’t think I can take another great magazine dying off!

MFA vs. MA in Journalism

I’ve been itching to go back to school lately and I don’t think there will be a better time than now. Getting a full-time job at this point is practically hopeless, so I will probably continue to freelance for a while. I also don’t want to take on any more student loans–I have more than enough [...]