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Life and times of a Charleston Daily Mail intern

Jozy Mendez’s future is very bright. Or maybe that’s just the glare from the windows.
Jozy Mendez’s future is very bright. Or maybe that’s just the glare from the windows.

A blog post by Daily Mail Editor and Publisher Brad McElhinny 

Ever wonder what it’s like to work for a newspaper?

Every summer, we give a couple of college students a chance to find out — which is a very good thing because the students have set journalism as a career goal. We don’t have them just come in and observe. We put them to work. They conduct interviews, write stories and get bylines in the newspaper, just like a full time reporter.

One of our interns this summer, Marshall student Jozy Mendez, is keeping a blog about her experiences. Jozy is originally from North Carolina, is pursuing degrees in both journalism and music, plays in Marshall’s marching band and served last spring as copy editor for The Parthenon, Marshall’s student newspaper.

We threw her right into the deep end and she came away with a front page story on her first day of work. She seemed a little surprised by that. Check in on how her summer is going by navigating to her blog, Life and Times of a Charleston Daily Mail Intern.

Click here for Jozy’s blog.

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