{"id":719,"date":"2016-02-17T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=719"},"modified":"2022-02-17T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:27:27","slug":"drew-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/my-degree-in-jmc\/drew-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Smith, Steptoe & Johnson\u2013 Class of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"DrewLike so many others, I began the W. Page Pitt journalism program knowing almost nothing about journalism. I only knew that I wanted to write for a living. As for actually making that happen, I left it to the professors at the SOJMC. They didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n

I have never looked at a sentence the same way after taking JMC 100 with Dr. Arnold (in fact, I keep a copy of his book by desk to this day). I know what it is to be passionate about writing and storytelling after being in a classroom with Dan Hollis. Working at The Parthenon<\/em> taught me how to take an idea and turn it into a bona fide piece of journalism. And the list goes on.<\/p>\n

And despite being a print major, I began working in online journalism immediately following graduation. Within a few years, I went from a paid-by-the-word freelance writer to the managing editor of a Chicago-based media startup. In that role, I was overseeing local news production for newspapers such as The Chicago-Sun Times<\/em>, The Houston Chronicle<\/em>, and the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I can definitively say that I would not have had these opportunities but for the education I received at the SOJMC. It was possible because of the time I invested in the W. Page Pitt journalism program and the time its professors invested in me. The SOJMC gave me the foundational knowledge to be a competent writer and editor. But more importantly, it prepared me to be a journalist. And for that, I\u2019m forever grateful.<\/p>\n

Though I\u2019m no longer in the journalism field, I still use the skills I learned at the SOJMC every single day. As an attorney, I have to be able to write effectively and concisely. I have to be curious and know how to ask the right questions. And I have to convey complex ideas in a way that is understandable and compelling. These are all things I learned to do at Marshall, in Smith Hall, from the professors at W. Page Pitt.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like so many others, I began the W. Page Pitt journalism program knowing almost nothing about journalism. I only knew that I wanted to write for a living. As for actually making that happen, I left it to the professors at the SOJMC. They didn\u2019t disappoint. I have never looked at a sentence the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":436,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions\/2351"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}