New and improved: Our vision for Blogs this fall
Welcome to the Daily Trojan’s new and improved blog section! Last semester, we rolled out a new website that allowed us to launch six blogs aimed to build our online presence. Over the summer, we’ve...
View ArticleReady for takeoff: Opinion Fall 2015
As the fall semester launches into motion, so too do the people behind Daily Trojan Opinion pages to bring you the most advanced editorial section yet. This fall, Daily Trojan Opinion has rolled out an...
View ArticleCustom-made: Designing with you in mind
This fall, when I took the offer to be design director of the Daily Trojan, I looked forward to two things. The first was the increased exposure of my designs to a larger audience than my usual...
View ArticleLifestyle: A section of L.A. stenographers
Remember when Trivia Crack was all the rage last spring? Admittedly, it took over my life for a short period of time. Trivia Crack had replaced Facebook, Pinterest and Buzzfeed as my main distractors...
View ArticleYou strike out sometimes when you’re swinging for the fences
It’s a sports columnist’s worst fear to be wrong. When USC lost to Stanford by double digits last Saturday at the Coliseum, I received a few texts and emails from people — the majority of whom I don’t...
View ArticleHow blogging helped me find my voice
When I tell people that I want to go into a career in journalism one of the many different pessimistic or sarcastic reactions I often get is, “So do you want to start a blog or something?” Well, kind...
View ArticleNews: The crisis of coverage
When I was asked to be the news assignments editor for the Daily Trojan this semester, I admittedly did not know what to expect. When I had been a news writer, my main responsibility was to go an event...
View ArticleA day in the life: Tackling issues behind the desk
For those of you who’ve been around as long as I have, Sunday’s announcement that former head coach Steve Sarkisian was asked to take an indefinite leave of absence from his role at the helm of Trojan...
View ArticleMultimedia: #BehindTheDesk
When I was first offered the position to be incoming multimedia director this summer, it felt like a USC dream was finally coming true. Over the past three years, I would watch my friends run off to...
View ArticleWriting out loud: The beauty of Blogs
Witty. Introspective. Moving. Laugh-out-loud funny. The Daily Trojan Blogs are all these things and more, a hybrid of web and log, a form that takes the diary and all its personal, retrospective...
View ArticleNews: Headlines and deadlines
On a whiteboard behind my desk in the Daily Trojan newsroom, there are tally marks indicating the number of corrections we’ve printed in the DT this semester: currently 11. Each one pains me, as though...
View ArticleFeatures: What actually happens behind the scenes
It’s around 5 p.m. on a Thursday night, and there are powerful voices blaring through a microphone speaker echoing through McCarthy Quad. Several workers’ union protesters are aligned in a circle...
View ArticleEditorial board, boy bands and other musings
As the cliché goes, if you love what you do, you won’t work a day in your life. I’m not sure who to credit this grand cliché to, but I’m going on record to state that whoever they are, they are...
View ArticleBrimming with (Daily) Trojan pride
For a recent “day in the life” video, our multimedia director asked me how I would describe my job, suggesting I say something about being the leader. Instead I told her I was a shepherd herding cats....
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The perks of being opinionated
Photo courtesy of Marc Wathieu, Flickr I haven’t done the math, but I’m almost positive that I’ve spent more time in the Daily Trojan newsroom than in my own apartment this week. I’m the editorial...
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War of the Words: Creative writing and news journalism
Photo courtesy of fubiz.com During my first semester as an editor at the Daily Trojan, I remember writing a last-minute feature for the news section in order to fill space. It was the first time I had...
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An editor’s life: With great power comes great responsibility
Photo courtesy of Barn Images, Flickr My job is defined by more than the hours I work, but by the response of the USC community to the content I curate and the layout I create. Every time I see another...
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We can’t write, so we made these.
Sometimes, words just aren’t enough. As editors of the Daily Trojan‘s visual content, we’ve compiled an actual look behind our desk, reflecting our lifestyle and work as designers for the paper. The...
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The “art” in Daily Trojan’s heart
Katlyn Lee | Daily Trojan Like any editor with their section, my co-editor Arya and I devote large chunks of time to the Lifestyle section of the Daily Trojan. We provide arts coverage throughout the...
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Confessions of a blogophobe
Photo courtesy of www.buildbookbuzz.com Though I’ve been editor for Blogs for months now, it is admittedly odd that I haven’t owned or written for a personal blog before. In fact, I have a fear of...
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