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A<\/span>mong Goucher\u2019s young undergraduate alums are several talented journalists working for some of the nation\u2019s most respected media outlets. Though their stories are as unique as they are, they all share some essential plot points.<\/p>\n

Erica Green \u201907<\/strong><\/span>, an education reporter for The New York Times<\/em>, recalls, \u201cMy first time reading the newspaper was in the early nineties when I read a Baltimore Sun<\/em> story about my own family and the worst day of our lives.\u201d After her mom was sentenced to prison, the Baltimore City native entered the foster care system when she was only seven years old. Green bounced from foster home to foster home before being taken in, in middle school, by a teacher. The communications & media studies major, who minored in political science and Spanish, would later intern for and then return as a full-fledged reporter to The Sun<\/em>. As a journalist, she \u201cvowed to write stories with humanity, dignity, and respect,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Erica Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI recall being struck by how people could gain access to details of the worst day of your life and put them out for the world to read. I believed I could use my gift [as a writer] and life experience to do better by people, particularly vulnerable ones like me and my family, in how their lives were presented to the world.\u201d Her deeply reported pieces, numerous awards, and increasingly impressive positions are evidence that she\u2019s done just that. And done it well.<\/p>\n

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In 2016, Baltimore\u2019s City Paper<\/em> voted Green \u201cBest Journalist\u201d for her work covering Baltimore City Schools for The Sun<\/em>. In his piece \u201cWhat Makes ‘New York Times’ Education Reporter Erica Green So Good?\u201d for Kappan<\/em>\u2014a magazine for educational professionals\u2014Alexander Russo cites first the expos\u00e9 Green co-wrote about the abuses and unethical practices used by the T.M. Landry school in Louisiana so its graduates achieved 100% admission rate to Ivy League colleges. The story was featured in the Times<\/em>\u2019 TV show The Weekly<\/em>, which aired on FX and Hulu.<\/p>\n

Russo writes, \u201cSome of her strongest stories include an award-winning piece about Charlottesville, which … examined a school system with one of the biggest racial gaps in the country, an investigation into mistreatment of Native American students in Montana, and her … profile chronicling the fledgling success of the LeBron James-supported IPROMISE school in Cleveland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green largely credits her success to her \u201cGoucher Village\u201d\u2014the administrators, staff members, professors, and fellow students\u2014who \u201cpoured into me\u201d and \u201csaw more in me than I could see in myself,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Jackie Peiser ’14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jackie Peiser \u201914<\/strong><\/span> describes her education before Goucher as privileged. She attended a small, private high school in Dallas. Yet, as a junior, after her journalism teacher told her she didn\u2019t have \u201cwhat it took,\u201d she gave up hopes of being a journalist. She quit the student newspaper, her dream destroyed.<\/p>\n

At Goucher, she took a class with Assistant Professor of Communications & Media Studies David Zurawik, who \u201creally saw my potential and told me I should seriously consider [journalism] as a career. I was so torn down,\u201d she says. But Zurawik\u2019s \u201cunwavering support helped me rebuild my confidence. \u2018Z\u2019 was my mentor throughout my time at Goucher. He introduced me to editors at The Baltimore Sun<\/em>, he reviewed my application for journalism school, and was an invaluable resource when I came across challenges as editor of The Quindecim<\/em>, the school\u2019s student-run newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Peiser graduated from Columbia Journalism School, fellow Goucher alum Ben Snyder \u201913<\/strong><\/span> connected her with an editor at Fortune<\/em> magazine, where she freelanced while job hunting. She landed a position at The New York Times<\/em>, first as a news assistant, then as a reporter covering the media industry.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Peiser began an overnight shift covering national news at The Washington Post<\/em>. She wanted to be a faster, better writer, and thought it the best way to achieve her goal. Peiser ran her plan by Zurawik, who fully supported it, telling her to \u201ckeep your head down, learn the skills, and get it out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July 2022, Peiser was promoted to retail reporter for The Washington Post<\/em>. In this position, she focuses \u201con the retail sector, trends, the economic significance of the industry, and changes in consumer spending and behaviors,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Like Green and Peiser, Ben Snyder was editor of The Quindecim<\/em>. He double majored in communication & media studies and American studies and studied at Oxford, as well. He\u2019s now a senior managing editor at Insider Inc., where he helps recruit and hire for several of the digital publication\u2019s niche markets and works closely with Insider\u2019s editors and others on the personnel and management needs of more than 100 employees. Snyder is also responsible for establishing goals and beats for reporters and helps provide career development opportunities.<\/p>\n

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The 2010-11 Quindecim staff included Ben Snyder ’13 (seated center) as associate news editor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Early in Snyder\u2019s career, Zurawik remembers Snyder calling him up and saying, \u201c\u2018Hey, I\u2019m working at Time<\/em> magazine, but they want me to go to Time<\/em> digital, which is a demotion, isn\u2019t it?\u2019\u201d Zurawik said, \u201cNo! Digital\u2019s the future. Go there and just pound out stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snyder\u2019s been a writer or editor for other outlets as well, including Bloomberg and The New York Times<\/em>. In 2017, he worked closely with former world tennis champion Billie Jean King on The History of World TeamTennis<\/em>, a book about King\u2019s tennis league, which Snyder had interned for in 2011.<\/p>\n

In 2003, David Zurawik was working full time as media critic at The Baltimore Sun<\/em> and teaching in the Communications & Media Studies Department when then-President Sandy Ungar (a former journalist himself ) asked him to become faculty adviser to the student newspaper, The Quindecim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Students writing and editing for The Quindecim<\/em> \u201cget the notion of media as a force for democracy\u2014that if you don\u2019t have reliable, fact-based, vetted information, you have the potential for chaos and deception and all the other horrible stuff that goes on in America today,\u201d says Zurawik. \u201cYou have to believe in journalism. I think more people realize democracy isn\u2019t fixed and it\u2019s very fragile and it\u2019s an experiment that each generation has to not just believe in but contribute to, and that\u2019s where journalism comes in. There was a reason the framers put it in the First Amendment\u2014the freedom of the press. They knew we needed this information.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 32 years at The Sun<\/em>, Zurawik left in 2021, signing on as a contributing media analyst at CNN the following year. He was also a recurring guest on CNN\u2019s Sunday morning show \u201cReliable Sources\u201d for almost two decades until it was cancelled in August 2022. Zurawik says he plans to keep working in media along with teaching, \u201cin part because media are changing so fast that if you\u2019re teaching newspapers as they were five years ago\u2014most of those newspapers are not even there today,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have to stay engaged in media to help your students understand the landscape of today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Simon \u201909<\/strong><\/span> was also a communication & media studies major. Like Green, Simon\u2019s formative understanding of the role of the media hails from childhood, but from a starkly different perspective. He noticed how his grandfather, an elected politician in Albany, NY, \u201cinteracted with the press and the power of their pen,\u201d he says. He got into journalism to help \u201cexpose problems, lift people up, and find solutions\u201d to the issues we face. Simon is a senior executive producer at Newsy, the nation\u2019s only free 24\/7 broadcast news network (expected to be rebranded as Scripps News in January 2023), and a member of the senior management team.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy day-to-day function is to plan, produce, and execute special programs and projects. Right now, that includes a nine-week limited series on politics we are producing with The Washington Post<\/em>, spearheading our election night coverage from the control room, and serving as lead producer on a major network-wide initiative to explore America\u2019s mental health crisis,\u201d he says. \u201cThe first month-long phase of that project concluded with a primetime event, featuring the U.S. Surgeon General and Elizabeth Smart,\u201d the woman who, at 14, was abducted and held hostage for nine months.<\/p>\n

As undergrads, Green and Simon were both editors of The Quindecim<\/em>. They dated Green\u2019s last semester at Goucher and, today, are married with two kids, a dog, and two thriving journalism careers. While they were drawn to their professions by different formative experiences, their goals as reporters are aligned.<\/p>\n

Green recalls, \u201cWe worked on an article about a young woman who was hit and killed by a car crossing Dulaney Valley Road. It was horrifying. We covered that [story] as students together so we just know how to lean on each other in that way when we have to cover tough stuff. When I was out walking around in [2015 during the Baltimore] riots, [Matt] was tracking me on TV. He wasn\u2019t calling me telling me to get home. Our daughter was like, 6 or 7 months at the time. I had no business being out there. But he also knew that there was no way I was going to be anywhere else. So by having that friendship and partnership at Goucher, we just know how this works. And we can support each other in our respective careers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Monique Welch ’16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like all the other alums featured here, Monique Welch \u201916<\/strong><\/span> was a communications & media studies major. She minored in music and was sports editor for The Quindecim<\/em>. Welch says the internships and classes she took at Goucher, \u201cand my involvement with the student newspaper, gave me insight into what the field would be like.\u201d<\/p>\n

After nearly four years at the Tampa Bay Times<\/em>, where she was a staff writer and digital producer, Monique recounts, \u201cI worked hard to become a \u2018jack of all trades\u2019\u2014a multiskilled journalist recording and editing audio news briefings, recording live videos, reporting and writing about community news, and managing social media. [In June 2021], I accepted an opportunity at the Houston Chronicle<\/em>, fulfilling a longtime goal of becoming a reporter.\u201d She is also an editor of the paper\u2019s “HouWeAre” newsletter, highlighting race, identity, and culture-related news in Houston.<\/p>\n

What Welch loves most about her job is \u201cbeing able to give a voice to the voiceless, to underrepresented minority groups\u2014those who may not be able to advocate for themselves, and to hold those in positions of power or influence accountable,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s also rewarding to make an impact on someone\u2019s life from telling their story or experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

As students at Goucher, each of these alums edited or wrote for The Quindecim<\/em>. Each had at least one internship, and a few had several, at respected media outlets like The Baltimore Sun<\/em>, WJZ-TV, and CBS News, that gave them experience in the fields they wanted to pursue. And each of them identified several professors, administrators, and staff members who mentored, challenged, and encouraged them.<\/p>\n

As for Zurawik, he says, \u201cI would like to leave a legacy of a firm concentration of journalism courses and study that continues what people like Erica, Matt, Ben, Jackie, and Monique have accomplished here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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