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Degree and Year: MA '70 Company: Storage Magazine (a division of TechTarget) Company Web Site: http://www.storagemagazine.com/ Title: Feature Editor City and State: Needham, Mass. Describe your magazine. What do you do? Storage magazine is edited for those folks who manage data storage within their companies. I do the normal stuff feature editors do. I come up with story ideas, sell them to the EIC, build a stable of free-lance writers, assign articles, edit copy, fight with the art department and do it all over again each month. Currently, I'm working on articles on "Better Backup." It's hard for an outsider to imagine but storage technology is very exciting to learn about and report on. The technology is changing so rapidly. How did you get your job? Networking, networking and more networking. What is your favorite J-School memory? Putting the Missourian to bed each night and moving on to an all-night poker game. Sleeping through my morning classes is another fond memory. Best professional lesson learned at J-School. "If your mother tells you she loves you, check on it." What makes you good at your job? Understanding people, attention to detail, hard work and knowing my limits. What do you consider to be your greatest professional achievement? As executive editor, I planned and edited a substantial cover story for Byte magazine about bringing computer technology into the classroom. What would be your best advice to current students? Make journalism fun, but take pride in what you do. What are your next career steps? Honestly, I'm looking forward to the time when I have enough money in the bank to do whatever I want to do. 
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