Pa. students talk their draw to journalism field

The Spark

College is a time where students realize their interests in the future careers. Trinity Johnson is a senior at Millersville University. Trinity is studying Media Arts and produces a weekly news show on campus.

“I actually started thinking about media arts back in high school. I did a broadcasting class in the high school, which was basically the same thing as what I'm doing now, where it's like we do the morning announcements every single day and we try to run it as close to a news station as we could. And I just absolutely fell in love with the structure. I fell in love with just the act of filming. And I decided I wanted to pursue that later in life. And I've really enjoyed it so far. I absolutely love media arts, and college has really given me an awesome opportunity to find out what all media arts can cover, which is really cool, “said Johnson.

Tylee Stauffer is a student at Lebanon Valley College. Tylee as the Associate Editor for La Vie Collegienne a student run newspaper.

“I kind of so it's we kind of run it through like a class sort of. So you take class and like you do assignments, write stories and all this kind of stuff for the class. And I kind of did that as it's part of a requirement for my major on the course. And then I kind of just fell in love with doing it, “said Stauffer.

Kate Barrelle is in the Mass Communications program at the York College of Pennsylvania. Kate is involved in being the current news director and former program director of WVYC 88.1 on campus.

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