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When I entered BU in the fall of 1998, I immediately applied for a weekly column at the Free Press. Shockingly enough I got one, and "Cooch's Corner" was a staple on page three every Friday for four months. Unfortunately "CC" was not renewed that January, so I spent the next year and a half failing to do anything journalistically productive. Realizing that a clip file would be pretty necessary if I ever wanted to get a job, I began reporting for the FreeP news staff in October 2000. I apparently impressed somebody, because that December is was made one of two Assistant News Editors for Spring 2001. After spending Summer 2001 as a copy editing intern at The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., I continued doing reporting work while serving as the Free Press' Online Services Director for the 2001-02 school year. Upon graduation, I was hired by The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass., to do news copy editing and page layout. Within three months of being hired there, sports editor Jon Comey gave me a sports column in addition to my news copy duties, set to run every Tuesday for the forseeable future. This stayed as such for about a year, when in July 2003 I was transferred to the Sports Department. Along with doing sports pages instead, I'll be writing a lot more -- mostly features, but who knows. And it seems I know what I'm doing. The end of July, I won third place in the New England Associated Press News Executives' Sports Column competition for 2003. The award was given in Class Two, which is papers between 30,000 and 60,000 in circulation. Regardless that it wasn't the biggest big time, I'm quite excited. Standard-Times Sports Columns & Features / August 2002 - Present Free Press News Reporting / October 2000 - January 2002 - (23) Free Press "Cooch's Corner" / September 1998 - January 1999 - (13) |
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