Jessica ravitz biography

The Student Life section of Utah State Today highlights work written by the talented student journalists at Utah State University.

Each week, the editor selects a story that has been published in The Utah Statesman or the Hard News Café or both for inclusion in Utah State Today.

Ravitz: Writing with Empathy, Resisting Fluff, and Making a Difference

By Katie Swain in The Hard News Café, Sunday, March 3, 2013

CNN Digital reporter Jessica Ravitz has focused her career on long-form, in-depth storytelling in a day that is increasingly more consumed by 140-character tweets, sound bites and abbreviated news.

She returned to Utah Wednesday [Feb.

27, 2013] to share the story of her ongoing journey and success in a Morris Media & Society Lecture, “Persistence, Patience and Compassion: An Enterprise Journalist’s Toolbox.”

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