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Profile: Elizabeth Venrick
Story and photo by Kiara Letcher, NewsNetNebraska
Erin Andrews of ESPN might want to be on the lookout because Elizabeth Venrick wants her job.
With a news-editorial major and political science minor, Venrick is eager to start her future as a journalist. She grew up in South Dakota, but decided to come to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln more for the football team than anything else.
“I’m passionate about college football, and I wanted a school with a good team,” she said.
Venrick interned in Washington, D.C., where she met President Obama. She also interned with Minnesota Vikings, which she created a blog about this past summer. Other than becoming the next big thing in sports broadcasting, Venrick said, she would love to write for a magazine. She’s also obsessed with online media.
“Everyone wants to be me,” Venrick said, noting that she’s a people person who loves to have a good time and enjoys meeting new people.
She said her strongest skills are writing and speaking, which both come easy to her. She believes good broadcasters must be able to write and tell stories well.
And with all of those qualities, Venrick said she is hopeful she’ll be able to land a spot on ESPN in no time.
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Profile: Kiara Letcher
Story by Elizabeth Venrick, NewsNetNebraska
Kiara Letcher is an entertainer. From day to day antics to the performance stage, Letcher dreams of one day making it big on the small screen.
“My future plans include morphing myself into Chelsea Lately or Joan Rivers,” Letcher said.
A Lincoln native, Letcher follows both of her professional heroes on twitter, which is just one of the many social media outlets she frequents.
“I want to have my own TV show and talk about entertainment and media related subjects,” said the broadcasting major, theatre and Spanish minor.
A self-described eccentric, Letcher is fully aware of her quirky behavior.
“Someone once told me I walk the line between funny and annoying, but I’m more funny,” Letcher said with a laugh. “I like to put on shows. I like to write funny things. I like to make people laugh.”
In fact, she’s been performing for her younger sister, Leah, 18, for years.
“I was always putting on shows for Leah and embarrassing her,” said Letcher.
Letcher’s audience has grown, however. She is now entering her second year as an official member of Red Theatre, a futuristic, community theatre group written by, for and about its community, based out of Lincoln.
“Entertainment is my passion,” Letcher said. “And drinking and collecting clothes.”
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Profile: Tori Grdina
Story and photo by Ryan Evans, NewsNetNebraska
Tori Grdina, a news-editorial and English major, enjoys writing so much that she hopes to do it for a living someday.
“My dream is to write my own book series,” the University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior said.
Grdina has even been developing a concept for the series since before her 2008 graduation from Pius X High School in Lincoln, Neb., that is loosely based on her own high school experiences.
“Right now I have an outline of where the story is going and I work on it every once in a while,” she said.
Indeed, it seems that Grdina enjoys the creative outlet that writing allows her– a passion that was discovered in sixth grade when she authored her first short story.
“The teacher showed the class what a good job I did and that kind of started me into liking writing,” she said.
That creative passion continues to Grdina’s blog, where she not only practices her craft, but also shares it, something that could certainly soon win her a job.
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Profile: Lacey Mason
Story and photo by Sarah McCallister, NewsNetNebraska
Many would call Lacey Mason opinionated. But, according to her, who isn’t?
“Everybody likes to say what’s on their mind.”
As a columnist and assistant Opinion editor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Daily Nebraskan, Mason certainly has the platform to express herself. And express herself, she has.
The senior news-editorial major has been speaking her mind through her weekly column in the student newspaper for the last year. As her writing has evolved, so have her subjects. Early on, she wrote about personal experiences, and more recently her stories have focused on social equality, minority issues and children’s issues.
One of Mason’s most memorable columns centered on women being sexually harassed and ogled based on their clothing choices. Because of the strong reactions – which included personal attacks and a slew of profanities directed at Mason – the Opinion editor was forced to shut down the comments section on the Daily Nebraskan website, Mason said.
“By telling women that they can’t dress a certain way, it’s giving power to the people harassing them.”
While Mason doesn’t plan to work in a traditional newspaper setting after graduating, she plans to continue expressing herself and her passions by working with a non-profit group, particularly one involving child advocacy.
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Profile: Sarah McCallister
Story and photo by Lacey Mason, NewsNetNebraska
The free expression of ideas and a strong defense of First Amendment rights are principles that guide Sarah McCallister, a senior political science and news-editorial major.
“I’m a big supporter of the idea that the only way to counter bad speech is with more, better speech,” said McCallister, who plans to attend law school after she graduates next May.
Despite being told by Tim Becker, chief of staff for Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., that political science and journalism are the two most frustrating career options, McCallister hasn’t been deterred from her goals.
McCallister, who is close with her family, including her sister, Laura McCallister, who works for 10-11 News, spends her nights copy editing at the Daily Nebraskan, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s school newspaper. She started out as a reporter two years ago, but now is more comfortable as slot editor.
“I like being able to find mistakes and fix things to help them look better,” she said. “I feel like a detective or something when I find something nobody else has seen.”
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Profile: Ryan Evans
Story and photo by Tori Grdina, NewsNetNebraska
Ryan Evans never expected a high school graduation requirement to lead him down a career path.
“I took an internship at KZUM, and basically spent the summer filing music and doing some production,” he said. “And eventually I got my own show.”
Evans, 24, has been hosting his folk music radio show, “Tree with Roots,” for about six years at KZUM, a non-profit radio station in Lincoln. Evans completed one semester of college after high school before taking a few years off to work there full-time. Two years ago, he was elected to the board of directors at KZUM and went back to school to get his degree in broadcasting.
“I’d love to do production for NPR someday,” he said. “Ideally I’d love to do something like Ira Glass has with producing ‘This American Life.’ It’s an amazing show.”
Evans also said he’s taken a few news-editorial classes that weren’t required, simply because he found them interesting. He said he’s considering taking a few more and possibly seeking a double major.
“It’s just been within the past year that I’ve really become interested in the news side of things,” he said. “Before I just wanted to push all the buttons, but anymore you really have to know a lot about both.”
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Profile: Kate Veik
Story and photo by Seanica Reineke, NewsNetNebraska
As a little girl, Kate Veik dreamed of being either a ballerina or a marine biologist, but now her dreams have taken a different direction.
Veik, an Omaha native, came to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pursue a degree in news-editorial. Her high school English teacher, the newspaper and yearbook adviser, read an essay of hers freshman year and told her she had the potential to be a really good writer, encouraging her to try the newspaper when she became a junior.
“It was encouraging,” Veik said. “I had never really gotten praise for one quality of mine, so from that point on, I always had it in the back of my mind to do the paper.”
Through her work on the school newspaper, she said she felt she accomplished something and got to know people through the process.
Now as a UNL student, Veik has gone on many trips for photojournalism, trips to Kosovo, South Africa, Zambia and Bolivia among other countries. She said they have helped her develop skills in photography and also given her real-world experience.
Before graduation in May, Veik is trying to decide where to go next because she is passionate about many things in and out of the journalism field. Becoming a part of a Public Relations team for an organization or company she cares about and supports is something she thinks would be really great.
“I’m happy and fulfilled in many areas,” she said. “Now I’m just trying to decide which area will be the best fit.”
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Profile: Seanica Reineke
Story and photo by Kate Veik, NewsNetNebraska
Life on the farm has helped 20-year-old Seanica Reineke figure out life after college.
Reineke, a junior news-editorial major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, grew up on a three-generation farm in Edgerton, Missouri.
“I wasn’t completely into it when I was younger, but I still had fun in 4-H,” Reineke said.
Growing up on a farm and around 4-H helped her develop who she is today and where she wants to be tomorrow. She’s pursuing agricultural journalism as a career because she wants to spread the positive message of agriculture.
“It just seems like everything was lining up towards ag,” Reineke said. “I have an appreciation for farming and the entire agriculture industry.”
For the past two summers, Reineke has interned at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting in Platte City, Mo., where she learned about broadcasting, editing audio and conducting interviews.
Reineke specifically remembers intensively covering the 2012 Farm Bill, the Environmental Protection Agency and H1N1, or the “swine flu.”
“The media and people in general labeling it “swine flu” really hurt the swine industry and farmers,” Reineke said.
After graduation, Reineke said she wants to return to NAFB full-time.
“The people I have met and talked to through my internships with NAFB are just so passionate about what they do that I absolutely loved working in ag.”
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