ABSTRACT
This chapter offers David Cohn's encouragement and wisdom about the path to being a reporter, a broadcaster, an editor or a media professional. Cohn was a philosophy major, considering pre-law, when a friend roped him into helping out with the undergraduate philosophy journal he had started only a year earlier. It was an entirely student-run show. Cohn found himself working on the undergraduate literary arts publication on campus. Once again, a student-run show from start to finish. But the content left him wanting. It was poems, short stories and other acts of fiction. There was something in both the philosophy and literary arts journals that Cohn wanted to keep pursuing. So he volunteered to write for the student newspaper on campus. He was not a 'full-time' staffer like some of the other students. But every piece left him fulfilled.
