On February 18, a day after the 2018 Chinese New Year, at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a lone 25-year-old man was being pushed away by many Chinese tourists streaming from the security check point. With a pocket-sized, fancy leather notebook and a Japanese-imported pencil in his dried hands, he was trying to write a […]
On March 18, 2010, a 17-year-old boy felt lost, sweating indefinitely under mid 60-degree weather in his room in Northampton, Pennsylvania. The boy was trying to do a final edit on his first ever newspaper for his high school. From the start to the finish, he did it all by himself: He tried to write, […]
My name is Sean Na, a 24-year-old Asian journalism student. Before I came to the United States in 2008 to pursue a commitment to be a reliable and trustworthy investigative journalist, I spent the first 16 and half years of my life in South Korea. I am a reporter for the Columbia Missourian serving about […]
My name is Sean Na from South Korea, a 24-year-old journalism student committed to becoming a newspaper journalist in the United States. I want to be a journalist writing stories in English. It is a dream that I have been pursuing ever since I was 13 years old. Even though Korean is my native language, I […]
It was this Tuesday in the city hall. I thoroughly enjoyed camping out there from 5:15 p.m., on Tuesday, to 12:45 a.m. of the next day. It was to attend Human Rights Commission and biweekly Columbia City Council meetings, neither of which I was there for an immediate story. Rather, I was there for a “just-in-case” story. Just in case I […]
The U.S. First Amendment embraces five rights that a “person,” not a U.S. Citizen, who is living in the U.S. territory should exercise the rights to freely express, publish, assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. Last Saturday, I visited Washington D.C. to attend the “Free Speech on Campus” journalism conference by the Newseum […]
The very reason I have chosen my life path to be a journalist is this – I want to deliver what is unshared, under-reported stories of people categorized as a social minority. This sentence kind of becomes my own cliche words in my LinkedIn’s profile, resume, cover letters, scholarship essays and etc. I am yet a […]
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