The Varied Lives of LoisLane

My initiation into journalism didn't follow the traditional route. After a stint as a graphic artist in my hometown of New York City, I left in 2001. It was then when I realized I wanted to contribute to society by making an impact in the lives of others. I just wasn't sure how I would do it.

While deciding what I was going to do with the rest of my life, I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where I eventually got a job at a local television news station as its 3 a.m. graphics producer. As my interest in news grew, I began to practice reading scripts on camera.

I always considered myself a writer but never thought I could do it for a living, until one day when I asked one of my mentors at the television station about print journalism. That single question led to an unpaid internship at the Albuquerque Tribune, where in the first week on the job I knew I was born to be a writer.

I went on to do both jobs for nine months until I was accepted into a journalism fellowship at the Freedom Forum's Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

From the Diversity Institute, I went on to work for the now defunct Birmingham Post-Herald. As the paper's City Hall reporter, I doggedly covered all things government while simultaneously chronicling the history of a formerly vibrant community. The four-day series on the Ensley neighborhood was recognized by the Birmingham Association of Black Journalists.

After a year-and-a-half, I was recruited by The Tennessean as a government reporter. Three days following my arrival at the paper, the year's biggest news story broke.  Days later, I was sent to Ajijic, Mexico to cover a national story surrounding the arrest of a then-murder suspect. My stories resulted in several  live appearances on Greta van Sustern, The Big Show and Catherine Crier Live.

During the rest of my tenure at The Tennessean, I was a general assignment reporter on the public safety desk. In this role, I completed several in-depth investigative pieces including a study of Nashville's 2005 homicides, a lap-dance ban and a HOPE VI redevelopment community.

Now, I am embarking on a more personally rewarding leg of my career, which includes this Web site and completing my first novel.


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