Andrea Frainier

What a busy week this has been for me.
At work, I have been asked to do the jobs of three people. In addition to my regular job, I have been filling in as a proofreader and writing articles. I love the responsibility, and I think this is great experience, but it’s been very draining. I’m [...]

Does graduating from college equal employment? It’s been more than six months since I graduated with my degree in journalism, and I have yet to find a fulltime job.
I have occupied myself for the last eight months with part-time jobs and freelance gigs. This equates to living paycheck to paycheck and becoming a complete germaphobe [...]

As a recent journalism graduate, I’ve been barraged with a massive amount of questions from friends, family and total strangers.
The conversation usually starts out like this:
“So, you just graduated from college?”
“Yes.”
“What was your major?”
“Journalism.”
“Oh, you know newspapers are dinosaurs, right? Nobody has found a successful business model for the news industry. In fact, they say [...]

Where were you when Michael Jackson died? I was working at my desk and received a call from my boyfriend, who broke the news to me, a little after 3pm. I checked my usual news outlets — CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. Nothing was posted about Jacko’s [...]