Briefly explain your role:
Photojournalist, and I run the visual storytelling side of the newsroom
Why did you get into this industry?
To begin with, I wanted to write and thought I …
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Briefly explain your role:
Photojournalist, and I run the visual storytelling side of the newsroom
Why did you get into this industry?
To begin with, I wanted to write and thought I could be close to the things I liked, like music, sports and the arts.
What's your newspaper/journalism journey to today?
I went to school for journalism at Mississippi State University and worked for the student paper, which got me access to football sidelines and introduced me to people and places I hadn't been exposed to before. While I was still in school, I got a job as a reporter at the daily newspaper in the town over and ran its Starkville bureau, which really just meant I had to cover everything. That's where I picked up a camera for the first time and quickly realized photography is the form of journalism and storytelling that most resonated with me. From there, I started working for our publisher, Vince, at a paper north of Atlanta, and I went with him to a paper in South Carolina before coming here.
What's something you've learned in the process?
There's much more gray in the world than any black and white.
How has working at a newspaper changed you?
It's made me appreciate what can be the mundaneness of day-to-day life and to see, not just to look.
What's something you wish more people knew about your role or newspapers in general?
There is a real effort to get things right and that there are real people behind the bylines.
What's something completely non-newspaper related about yourself?
I have an English setter named Breeze, and she's the best.