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Pasadena City College Courier - December 18, 1986

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Pasadena City College Courier - February 1985

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Pasadena City College Courier - 11/15/1985

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I plan on covering the city of Pasadena. I was the Editor of the local community college —Pasadena City College — for a year, and have strong ties with the college and City Hall. Pasadena has more than 139,000 residents that live within its 22.5 square miles, according to its most recent data pool in 2013. About 55 percent of the population is white, 33 percent Latino/a, 13 percent African-American, 12 percent Asian and less than half are indigenous, according to the Pasadena City website.

I plan on using a variety of sources to gain thorough coverage of Pasadena.

The following are my intended news sources:

Pasadena City College Courier: The student-run news source is both online and in print. This paper gives insight to the educational politics of the college and oftentimes-surrounding news within the major city.

City of Pasadena Website: I plan on following the city Board of Trustees to track possible news and see upcoming events in the community.

Pasadena Police Department Website: I also plan on looking into the police records to catch stories that I may write on my own without heavily relying on other news outlets writing on the same story.

Pasadena Star News: This regional newspaper has been around for more than a century, and has a strong reach to communities including San Gabriel, Temple City, Arcadia and Pasadena. A more general audience may give a more general story of events, which will aid me in seeing the big picture of overarching stories from the Pasadena website.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved written word. I would sit in the backseat of my dad’s car and read the signs of various shops, street names, license plates and billboards. I loved imagining what each word meant. And now, I love being able to put meaning behind the words I write. 

I am a senior Journalism student with a dream of telling stories that matter. I transferred from Pasadena City College with a head start in news coverage after leaving my post as the Editor of the Courier newspaper in 2013. 

I didn’t want to lose my writing rhythm from two years on the paper, so I hunted for a writing position here at CSUN. I was lucky to be picked as a news feature writer for CSUN Today, the university’s news source, run by Marketing and Communications. To this day, I love writing about the successes that come out of CSUN. 

As of May 2015, I have also been an intern for National Geographic Learning, where I help coordinate special events for NatGeo programs and nonprofits that get featured on the channel. 

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