I’m Marti, a 21-year-old college graduate with a passion for writing.
This is me. I've since ditched the glasses and grown out the hair, but you get the idea.
I decided to be a journalist at the end of my senior year of high school and have been steadily working toward that goal ever since. After experiences at my college daily and three internships, I’ve reached the point where I’m ready to get that first full-time reporting job at somebody’s publication – but it remains to be seen of the industry is ready for me. I keep my fingers crossed, pray hourly and carry a rabbit’s foot, just for a little extra reassurance.
Between my post-grad internship work and applying for roughly 10 jobs a day, I’m your average media consumer. I read a lot and do a lot of thinking about journalism as a practice – or perhaps an art – and the industry in general. Aside from wanting to make my bread and butter out of newsprint and glossy pages, I’ve done a little research about the current state of newspapers and feel like I can make the occasional comment or observation about the world I want to enter. I may be on the outskirts of Professional Town right now, but I’ve got my passport and am starting that slowwww walk through customs.
Ha. That last sentence was pretty corny. But you get the idea.
This blog is the place for my comments and observations. You can help me by doing the following:
A) Reading it.
B) Commenting on it.
C) Hiring me.
But especially C.
