Location: United States
Christine George Tibbetts
What do you do? I am the owner of Tibbetts Communications, which creates travel journalism, a newspaper and national blog. Tibbetts has more than 40 years of experience marketing and public relations for the arts, community development, education and healthcare. How did you get your job? Entrepreneurial techniques. What is the best professional lesson you … Continued
Carly Kaufman Scaduto
What do you do? I am a communications manager at Monsanto Company, supporting our Vegetable Seeds division. I work in Monsanto’s public affairs department at our headquarters in St. Louis, but collaborate with colleagues around the world to communicate about our vegetable seed products both internally and externally. What is the best professional lesson you … Continued
Dana Brzozkiewicz
What do you do? I manage the communications efforts for the broadband product team at Broadcom. Broadcom is a technology company based in southern California that drives connectivity in today’s devices like smart phones, set-top boxes and data centers. I write and edit the product group’s press releases, presentations (speaking and corporate), blog posts, contributed … Continued
Margaret Engel
Margaret “Peggy” Engel, BJ ’73, has had a successful 38-year career in journalism. She is the executive director of the nation’s oldest writing fellowship, The Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation, which supports investigative journalists and photojournalists worldwide. She is the former managing editor of the Newseum, the $450 million news museum in Washington, D.C. and also … Continued
Jeffrey M. Christian
What do you do in your current job? I am the largest shareholder and managing director of CPM Group. I created the company when I negotiated a leveraged buy-out of what was then the Commodities Research Group within the Goldman, Sachs Investment Research Department. We spun off to be independent, for a variety of reasons. … Continued
William R. Davie
What do you do? I am a professor and sequence coordinator, mass communication/broadcasting at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. How did you get your job? Application and interview following PhD program at the University of Texas at Austin. What is the best professional lesson you learned at the J-School? Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! What advice … Continued
Lara Jakes
What do you do? I currently am the senior national security and diplomatic affairs writer for AP, a job I took after three years as a foreign correspondent and chief of bureau in Baghdad, Iraq. How did you get your job? By learning the craft from the ground up and spending years in the trenches … Continued
Alicia Peirce
What do you do? After graduating from Mizzou, I was offered a full-time internship with 4ORCE, a digital agency in St. Louis, where I worked in the User Experience (UX) lab, and supported the account service team with Scottrade and Purina. After working for four months, I received a full-time account executive position at GROUP360 … Continued
Jake Edinger
What do you do at your job as a creative director? My job is to get the most interesting and effective ideas produced. What do you enjoy most about your job? The constant stimulus; chasing the unknown is invigorating and rewarding. What has been your greatest professional challenge? Getting a job. My first job came … 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