Degree: Magazine Journalism
Lori Berger
What do you do? I am the entertainment and special projects director for Hearst Magazines. As entertainment director, I put together celebrity covers for some of the Hearst magazines, which means projecting which celebrities will be hot – or not – since we work a good six months ahead of time. I also work on … Continued
Tony Kontzer
What do you do? I’m a freelance writer and journalist. My focus is on information technology, and I write for a variety of publishers and corporations. How did you get your job? This is my second stint as a freelancer. The first was from 1996-2000. I had been working for a weekly business publication (the … Continued
Mireille Zieseniss
Clack clack clack clack: As a child, Mireille Zieseniss, BJ ’93, loved listening to the sound of her mother’s fingers clacking quickly against her Smith Corona typewriter keys as she typed lesson plans for her class. The buttons, the sound of the letters striking the page and the words that appeared magically mesmerized Zieseniss. Soon, … Continued
Christine Chan
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from air traffic control screens less than an hour after takeoff on March 8, 2014. The plane had been flying in good weather conditions. Its disappearance, without distress signals, left air traffic control officials, the media and the public wondering what happened. As soon as the news broke, Christine Chan, … Continued
John Haskins
If there is one thing the Missouri School of Journalism taught John Haskins, BJ ’85, it was to pay attention to detail. Haskins sat in the sunken room in Neff Hall that was commonly called “the pit.” As Professor Ernest Morgan returned the first graded assignment to the class, Haskins stared at the manual typewriter … Continued
Eugene Phua
Student editor Eugene Phua sweats over the next issue of Vox Magazine in a mostly dark Lee Hills Hall. There aren’t enough quality visuals to go with the stories, and he needs to figure out how to fill the space. Adjusting all of the page layouts – a time-consuming task – seems to be the only … Continued
Ann Friedman
By Elizabeth Gower About to graduate from the Missouri School of Journalism with a magazine journalism emphasis, Ann Friedman, BJ ’04, faced a fork in the road, unsure of which path to take. It was the early 2000s, and digital technologies were in their pioneer days. Not enough was known about these new tools to … Continued
Pamela Gerhardt
What do you do? I write and teach. Here’s my quick bio: Pamela Gerhardt’s memoir about her father’s stroke, “Lucky That Way,” published by University of Missouri Press, Oct. 1, 2013, won the 2014 American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Prize, memoir/bio category. It was also nominated for The American Book Awards and … Continued
Sandi Straetker
Sandi Straetker, BJ ’89, is owner and principal of PRiority Public Relations LLC. She is also an award winner, a mother, a counselor for Fortune 100 companies, a community leader, a volunteer, but most of all she’s a proud Missouri School of Journalism alumna. Marked at Birth Growing up in Moline, Ill., Straetker developed an … Continued
Eloise Hatfield
What types of work have you done throughout your career and what do you enjoy the most? My first full-time job after graduating from Mizzou was working as a writer and editor for Campus Crusade for Christ at their former headquarters in San Bernardino, Calif. As a member of the publications department, I wrote articles … Continued