Self portrait and biography

I don't have a favorite movie anymore. When I was young, I liked Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But for the past decade or so, I have enjoyed Coen Brothers' movies, and I have never seen a Stanley Kubrick movie I didn't like.

I used to play music in various bands. I play guitar--who doesn't?--but not much anymore.

I write, mostly, and with some frequency. I am the editor of The Preface, IU South Bend's official student newspaper. I freelance, occasionally, for The South Bend Tribune, after having completed an internship for course credit there last spring. The Tribune pays $60 an article. So I wouldn't call that my career. The Preface pays more.

IU South Bend has no "J-school," but instead, has a journalism track with the mass communication degree offered by the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts. There are only a few journalism classes to take there, but that's OK because it leaves room to diversify. That's what the editors at the Tribune wanted: diverse media capabilities. They said the journalists they hire in the future will be able to write, shoot video, edit it, post it to a website and various social media platforms, and do this many times a day, too.

If I could produce any media, I would produce magazine articles with references to additional content on a website where the reader would find my multimedia accompaniments to that article--things like podcasts and mini-documentaries produced from the material I generated when reporting the main article.