The board is looking for a diverse group of Collegian alums who are interested in engaging fellow alumni, mentoring current Collegian students and promoting the Collegian. This year, the board sponsored two series of Zoom Roundtables for students, created a mentoring program, provided guidance to the business staff to generate Read more…
On April 15, Jeremiah Hassel, lifestyle editor of The Daily Collegian, moderated a PRIDE discussion over Zoom featuring three outstanding Penn State LGBTQ alums. Speaking that day were Jeffrey Conrad, president and founder of AgIS Capital; Mara Keisling, a 1987 PSU graduate and founding executive director of the National Center for Read more…
Penn State Daily Collegian Lifestyle Editor Becky Marcinko talks about how reporters find and keep good sources with Scott Dodd, senior staff editor on the National Desk of the New York Times, and Len Barcousky, a freelance writer, author and retired journalist. Dodd has worked for newspapers, magazines and digital Read more…
Daily Collegian Sports Editor Andrew Destin interviews award-winning ESPN sportscaster Lisa Salters, a 1988 broadcast journalism graduate of Penn State and former Penn State women’s basketball player. Salters has been a reporter for ESPN and ESPN on ABC since 2000. Earlier, she covered the O.J. Simpson murder case for ABC, Read more…
Author, podcaster, personal finance expert and PSU Daily Collegian alum Farnoosh Torabi talks about her career with Collegian Assistant Creative Director Elizabeth Bourque in this new installment of the Collegian Roundtables sponsored by the Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG). Torabi graduated from Penn State in 2002 with a bachelor’s of Read more…
The Collegian AIG interviewed Collegian General Manager Wayne Lowman about the recent controversy that erupted publicly over the waiver and indemnification document each staff member is asked to sign. AIG: Over the past month or so, controversy has arisen over the contract that The Collegian asks staff members to sign, Read more…
This has been a tough year for the college students working at The Daily Collegian, and the next semester likely won’t be any better. The COVID-19 shutdowns have forced most of them to work remotely. Meanwhile, they’ve taken classes on computers in their homes far from Happy Valley. They’ve missed Read more…
Abigail Schucker, director of marketing for Penn State’s student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, moderates this panel of marketing experts. They are Abigail A. Fairmen, director of marketing and business development for Richards, Kibbe & Orbe LLP; Andrew Palsky, associate brand director, hospital marketing for NovoNordisk, and Megan Hennigan, director of Read more…
Job searching and networking are challenging, even when there’s no pandemic. In this roundtable discussion on the why, when and how on networking, Daily Collegian Assistant Marketing Director Mikayla Brennan interviews panelists Robyn Radomski, principal in the RLR Advisory Group and retired CMO of several large professional services firms; Karen Pallotta, retired Read more…
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, who was outed as a spy during the George W. Bush administration, speaks with Collegian Assistant Marketing Director Mikayla Brennan in this Roundtable. Valerie Plame Wilson served on the Collegian advertising staff and as its business manager before graduating in 1985 and immediately being Read more…