emerging expertise
Asking thought-provoking questions and adapting interviews for digital publication
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industry professional profile
industry professional profile
I conducted this interview for Mark Haab's Careers in Journalism course in the fall of 2025. I interviewed a professional digital journalist on the current state of the news industry and their career path, from their education in Pennsylvania to their work in Indianapolis. This interview takes the form of an alumni profile that would be published by a college, while also serving as a resource for graduates entering the field of journalism.
Anonymizing and paraphrasing while preserving the truth
Picking powerful quotes from a long conversation
Constructing a digital resource
“[My work] is everything everywhere all at once all the time,” Smith says. “But I love the work I do.”
Indy Has Been Waiting for Caitlin CLARK
Indy Has Been Waiting for Caitlin CLARK
I wrote this article for Chris Lamb's feature writing class in the spring of 2024. The assignment called for an online magazine-style profile on any person or issue. I interviewed sports media professionals, local artists, and fans of women's basketball on what Clark's move to the Indiana Fever means for both the team and the press surrounding women's sports in Indianapolis.
Navigating a live event to find sources
Contacting experts when conducting background research
Turning around a piece on a tight deadline to capitalize on the relevance of a moment
“She’s showing my daughters that it’s possible for women to be popular and powerful.”
back to your roots
back to your roots
I wrote this research paper for Dr. Audrey Ricke's Cultural Anthropology class, ANTH-A104, in the fall of 2023. This paper served as my honors contract for that semester. This paper is constructed similarly to an ethnography, collecting data on a cultural phenomenon through interviews. It is presented in an accessible and approachable format that is optimized for digital publication in an academic magazine. In "Back to Your Roots," I examine the relationships three women and their daughters have with their plants, and the effects and relationships between their interactions with plants and their maternal relationships. This work expanded on the concepts of cultural concepts of agriculture and family we focused on in class.
Writing interview questions based on an academic text
Adapting conversations into qualitative datasets
Reaching conclusions about human habit based on behavior
Maggie says she’s “Not the right person to take care of him, but I’m all he has so I have to grow into it.”
My skills as an interviewer have grown and changed over the three years I have written as an undergraduate student. In my earliest interview, my quotes and clipped. Conversations are largely written in paraphrase. I wrote to meet the stipulations of an assignment without paying much attention to where that work would fit in a larger digital context.
As I started to write for journalism classes, like Lamb's Feature Writing, I was asked to consider where my writing could be read and by who. I learned to ask deeper questions, to let sources lead and let their quotes tell the story. This assignments translate directly to my work in news production as I paraphrase press conferences for background, pick the best soundbites from a feature story, and adapt my broadcast scripts for publication online.
As I near the end of my education, my work is written with its place in the digital landscape at the front of my mind. I consider the type of writing I will do in my professional life and apply these conventions to work for my classes like Careers in Journalism. I ask questions that let sources tell long and sprawling stories and have learned to find the quote at the heart of those stories.
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