A Case Against The Student Newspaper (When You Have Other Options)

It wasn’t because he graduated; no, he had a year to go.

He wanted to do “something else.” What that was, Athas didn’t know, but he knew he wanted to be working “with people already in the profession, rather than preparing for the profession.” So he contacted a local newspaper about freelancing for them. That got him noticed by the paper’s website, who tapped him to write a blog about his school, the University of Massachusetts.

We’ll let Athas take it from here:

The idea was for it to be multimedia-based and cover everything and anything UMass.