

I’ve also been listening to the documentary-style podcast First Day Back. Fowler and Philipp Antoni of Stripe, about how effective teams work.
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I’ve been reading Increment, a quarterly magazine on software engineering, from Susan J.

Tell us about something great you’ve read, watched or listened to lately. We drank Vietnamese iced coffee at every opportunity we could find, marveled at Ha Long Bay and cautiously walked through scooter-filled streets. It’s been more than two decades since I’ve been back and it was an amazing experience to see how much the country has developed, to eat all the delicious, local food and to spend time with family. Last year, I got the opportunity to spend two weeks with my mom and my sister traveling to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam. Tell us about an amazing place you’ve traveled.
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Hesser served as a feature writer and food editor at the New York Times before starting the publication and even made an appearance in the movie Julie & Julia. I’d be honored to have Amanda Hesser of the James Beard Award-winning website Food52 as one of our guest speakers. Our volunteer team got together recently to discuss potential themes for our monthly meetups and one of the ideas we were looking to explore was side hustles. Name a person (they can be a historical figure or living) you’d love to have at an ONA St. Realistically, I’m hoping to pursue a master’s degree in the future and become more involved in journalism education. In high school, I was doing a lot of environmental work and I became passionate about urban planning. When I was four years old, I was fascinated by space and I could have easily seen myself becoming an astronomer. If you weren’t in journalism, what would you be doing instead? We have a lovely volunteer team and co-organizer Kelly Moffitt, who helps coordinate our monthly meetups and has been a ray of sunshine. We had a packed house at our inaugural event at TechArtista and our group is a fantastic mix of journalists from magazine to radio and everything in between. Louis community has been incredibly welcoming, especially having moved to the city only six months ago. Tell us what’s amazing about the digital journalism community in St. I’m currently nursing a wrist sprain, which has kept me away from the pitch, but I’ve played on-and-off for roughly seven years and travelled to Frankfurt, Germany last year as a commentator at the Quidditch World Cup. I really enjoy playing quidditch and I had the opportunity several months ago to compete in a tournament in St. What’s your passion project outside of journalism? The piece won an EPPY award and has also been named a finalist for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in the community media category. Tell us about something you’ve worked on in the past year that you’re super proud of.Īt my previous paper, the Brandon Sun, we produced a short documentary and longform feature called Knights of D-Day about five World War II veterans who were awarded France’s highest honor for their contributions in Normandy. Having co-workers who are incredibly supportive and having the ability to take initiative, to learn and to experiment on various projects in the newsroom makes my work even more rewarding. I love being able to collaborate with reporters on a mix of short and long-term projects.
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Louis Post-Dispatch gives me the opportunity to dabble in design, code and data. Join the Meetup group.īeing a front-end developer at the St. Leaders have their fingers on the pulse of their journalism communities, convening important conversations and networking opportunities.Īndrew Nguyen is a front-end developer and journalist at the St.

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