Tag: journalism
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Pressing Forward: Journalism Week features distinguished alumni
by Sydney Rhodes Time Magazine named “The Guardians” Person of the Year and featured journalists including staffers of the Capital Gazette; Annapolis, Maryland’s local newspaper. In the pool of Capital Gazette staffers seen on the cover, Selene San Felice, UT ‘16 alumna and a feature reporter, was one of them. San Felice, a former editor […]
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Journalism week features alumni, reminds of the fields importance
By Katelyn Massarelli The Student Press Law Center (SPLC) named 2019 the “Year of the Student Journalist” along with the Freedom Forum Institute and the Newseum. Time Magazine named the Guardians Person of the Year as they fight the war on truth. Meanwhile, journalists continue to fight for the freedom to report and hold those […]
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Students’ First Amendment rights questioned
Editor’s note: Alejandro Romero, one of the students quoted in this story, is also The Minaret’s multimedia editor. He did not contribute to the writing or the editing of this article in any way, and did not read the article before publication. By Alexandra Tirado Senior journalism students Alejandro Romero, Jamie Zale and Veronica Brown […]
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Making it Big in the Big Apple
By REGINA GONZALEZ On an unusually humid Monday in early August, I stepped over the “watch the gap” sign onto the Long Island Railroad train en route to Penn Station from my hometown of Island Park, New York. I had always been grateful for the location I grew up in; living five minutes away from […]
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Animal Instincts Influence Housing Decisions
The first thing you see when you walk into UT junior Siarra Sherako’s apartment down S Boulevard is a flight of steep stairs and her kitten, Cobain, moseying down to greet whoever comes through the door. More often than not, Cobain is accompanied by his best friend Stella, a 3-year-old dog owned by Stevi Hemingway, […]