From her early days as an occasional opinion writer for her high school's student paper, Lyz Lenz has never shied away from speaking her mind. In the last few years, her freelance writing career has risen dramatically, with bylines in the Colum

Chloe Angyal

Oct 21st, 2020 27m 14s

In this week's Launch Student News interview, Victoria talks with Chloe Angyal, freelance journalist and Contributing Editor for Marie Claire.

Rebecca Jennings

Sep 16th, 2020 41m 7s

While writing for her high school newspaper, The Goods by Vox reporter Rebecca Jennings fell in love with journalism, specifically about culture, an interest she has carried on in her college days at NYU and her current role as a columnist for

Kim Kelly

Sep 9th, 2020 33m 9s

After getting experience at her high school newspaper, Kim Kelly was able to land her first professional byline in the local newspaper at only 15. Since then, Kim has continued pursuing love of journalism, fusing it with her other passions such

Nicole Clark

Sep 2nd, 2020 39m 48s

For Nicole Clark, a contributing editor at Catapult and freelance journalist, pursuing journalism was always a "pipe dream"- writing was something she had been passionate about since childhood, but she worried about the career path's instabilit

AC Shilton

Aug 26th, 2020 34m 25s

While working in an advertising position, AC Shilton realized her true passion wasn't in marketing, but rather journalism. She started off by submitting freelancing story ideas to her company, building up clips and experience as she went. Despi

Adrienne LaFrance

Aug 19th, 2020 30m 23s

During March 2020, The Atlantic was able to gain over 36,000 new subscriptions thanks in part to special projects and in-depth reporting The Atlantic is famous for. Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of the magazine, discusses some of her

Liz Landau

Aug 12th, 2020 29m 7s

In this week's career interview, Victoria talks with NASA Senior Communications Specialist and freelance journalist Liz Landau about how Liz was able to combine her love of science and journalism, started writing for the Harvard Crimson in high

Ed Yong

Aug 5th, 2020 28m 4s

In this week’s career interview, Victoria talks with The Atlantic science writer Ed Yong about how he got started in the journalism industry, advice for high school journalists, and the future of the journalism industry.