{"id":11176,"date":"2023-05-09T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harrington.uri.edu\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2024-05-20T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T19:29:43","slug":"amanda-koskela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/2023\/05\/09\/amanda-koskela\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Koskela &#8217;23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/journalism-b-a\/\">Journalism<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hometown: Wakefield, RI<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nQ: What are you doing after graduation?<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After graduation, I am moving to Marquette, Michigan, where I will be a morning news co-anchor for WLUC\/TV6 News in Negaunee!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: Describe the process of getting your job.<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I got my job by applying on Gray Television&#8217;s website, where I went through about 2-3 weeks of interviewing and meeting the station&#8217;s staff. I received a phone call with the offer shortly after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: How has Harrington prepared you for your plans?<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harrington has given me multiple opportunities to explore my interest in journalism as well as subgenres (such as broadcasting and climate reporting). I created a professional reel which helped me get this job offer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: What are you most proud of from your time at URI?<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am most proud of the work I have completed in my last two semesters at URI. I have created a professional broadcast reel, a multimedia story covering shorebird population decline using ArcGIS Story Maps, and I have written a piece about Varroa Mites affecting beehives that is about to be published on ecoRI News&#8217; website as a feature.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: What is your favorite Harrington memory?<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My favorite Harrington memory is being able to meet Vlad Duthiers, Errol Barnett, and Lana Zak at CBS through a Harrington field trip to New York City.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: Is there anything else you would like to share?<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get involved with clubs on campus! I was able to work for the school newspaper and was the founder and president of the URI Entomology Club. I had a blast being so involved on campus, and it gave me not only some brownie points on my resume but a lot of friends.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Koskela &#8217;23, journalism, moved to Michigan after graduating to anchor for WLUC\/TV6 News. Learn more about her plans after graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":11182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalism","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12286,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions\/12286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}