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Describe your place of employment.
The Sandusky Register is a medium-sized paper with a circulation of about 25,000/daily and 28,000/Sunday. Located on Lake Erie, we have 10 full-time reporters who cover everything from city council to the amusement park industry (Cedar Point is in our backyard).

What do you do?
I am the direct supervisor for five reporters. I assign and edit stories for all 10 reporters. I also write weekly editorial and confer with the managing editor, copy editors and circulation manager to determine front-page story placement.

How did you get your job?
I was a business reporter at the Sandusky Register for 18 months starting in June 2000. I then returned to Mizzou as a journalism academic adviser and to get my master's degree. From my connections at the paper, I learned that the managing editor was searching for a city editor, so I applied.

Best professional lesson learned at J-School.
Meeting deadlines. In the real world if you don't make your deadlines, your editors will be very upset.

What is your favorite J-School memory?
My first real day at the Missourian. I covered a night meeting and was under a lot of pressure because I had missed my deadline and the editor wasn't too happy.

What would be your best advice to current students?
Absorb all of the information you can. It may be tempting to skip class or daydream through lecture, but you have no idea how amazing your professors are until you get out into the real world and see them quoted in articles and realize the huge impact they have on the profession of journalism.

What are you currently working on?
I always have my hands in the pot when it comes to developing and following through on story ideas for my reporters, so it's hard to pinpoint one story in particular. Personally, I am working with my husband to fix up our new house.

What makes you good at your job?
I have great organizational skills and solid news judgment.

Where would you most like to work?
I would like to work at Mizzou as a professor.

What are your next career steps?
I would like to pursue my PhD, although I'm a little nervous about that undertaking.

What did you want to be as a kid?
I wanted to be an architect, but when I realized I needed to know math, I quickly changed my mind.