It wasn’t long ago that News 12 reporter Emily Lorsch was a college student, and she credits internships for a career that’s landed her in the country’s biggest television market.

Doha Madani, a breaking news reporter at NBC News visited Professor Nicole Lewis’s Reporting and Writing 1 class earlier this semester.

While remote learning is nothing like meeting in person, it has its pluses. This fall's Magazine and Feature Writing classes, taught by Professor David Alm, are benefitting from the focused intimacy of a Zoom call, allowing students to work both in small groups and as a whole to develop their ideas and polish their writing without the pressures of in-person contact.

As an audience engagement editor at the LA Times, Adrienne Shih works with the newsroom to help readers see and interact with stories better. This means collaborating with reporters and editors to create headlines, push notifications, social media rollouts and newsletters.