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Alumna Named Top Media Professional

Mary Catherine Wellons, CNBC San Francisco bureau chief, was recently named one of LinkedIn’s top 10 media professionals 35 and under. Wellons is a 2004 graduate of the College and a former associate editor of The Cavalier Daily news section. Here’s what LinkedIn has to say about Wellons: “Silicon Valley is full of fast-rising stars. So it’s only […]

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Alumni, Students Discuss Digital Media

On April 20, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association and The Cavalier Daily hosted a day-long series of workshops and panels with digital media experts intended to explore the critical business and editorial decisions that will define America’s news organizations in the coming decades.

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CDAA Event

Life After the CD – April 2013

Maggie Bowden Buchanan (Col ’06; opinion editor) and husband Russell welcomed their first child this past July. Bonnie Kyle was born on July 15, 2012. Maggie is enjoying her new life as a stay-at-home mom and recently started her own market research contracting firm specializing in consumer packaged goods. Lauren Caldwell (Col ’10; graphics and life […]

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Life After The CD

The Newsroom: Disrupted

When I look back on my time at The Cavalier Daily, three things stand out for me: deadline pressure, waiting for hours by the phone for a call back, and my reporter’s notebook. That was 2001. Today, I work in the CNBC newsroom where, yes, there is deadline pressure, but it’s round the clock. It’s not […]

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Alumni Contributions

Teacher Adapts to New Media

One of the few regrets I have from my Cavalier Daily days is not getting a negative of my first story. This was a tradition among those who had been around a while. Unfortunately, I arrived in the basement of Newcomb right as the paper was phasing out its old preflight process in favor of […]

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Alumni Contributions