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What do you do?
I am a news producer. We are a 24-hour cable news operation. I am responsible for the daily content on our air during the afternoon. I write, edit and choose the stories that run in my shows each afternoon. I work closely with the assignment desk and reporters.

How did you get your job?
I got my job through Missouri alumni already at the station as well as research on my own that there was a job opening.

Best professional lesson learned at the J-School?
I would have to say any ethics lesson. In this profession too many people forget about ethics when they get into the real world. It would make our profession that much better if we all took a moment to analyze the information we're delivering to our audience. I also believe journalists sometimes overstep their bounds when it comes to receiving gifts from sources or at events. Too often we run into a conflict of interest when a journalist blurs the boundaries.

What would be your best advice to current students?
The best advice I can give current students is to realize you're not entering a field where there are 9 to 5 jobs. Being in journalism means sacrificing a lot of other things in your life. Each and every one of us has to learn how to balance family and a social life with the life of a journalist. Many of us aren't able to do that. That isn't wrong. It's a very tough thing to do. Realize out of college you are going to be working nights, weekends and early mornings while many of your friends in other professions will be working 9 to 5 with holidays and weekends off.

What is one thing you wished you had done?
I wish I had worked for a second degree while at Missouri. It can never hurt to have a degree in something that can help you within the industry or to leave the industry. Few of us actually end up in the position we desired to reach leaving college. Having a business degree or communication degree or taking more advertising classes in the J-School will help current students reach their goals. It will also give some of the students an out if they realize they can't continue to work as journalists.