A collection of non-academic features written while studying for a liberal arts master's degree in the USA:
Narrative profile
Interview with Holocaust speaker Jeannie Smith, who tells stories of her late mother, Irene Gut Opdyke, who rescued twelve jews during the second world war. Her courageous act as been made into a play, Irena's Vow, performed on New York's Broadway and in the UK.
Op Ed
Gun ownership secrecy reveals plenty about the discontenment of gun culture among American people.
Profile
Interview with Harvard government major Monica Lutz, who tells why she hopes the unprecedented U.S. interest in the 2014 World Cup will inspire American kids to get out and play, learn and succeed.
Review
"The Paper.” A plain title, mundane even. But as the title of Ron Howard’s 1994 ‘’day in the life” inspired account of the workings of a newsroom, it works. Here we have a big Hollywood movie, with big Hollywood names, but it feels real.
Criticism
There's one aspect of Harvard University's campus that's hard for a British girl to get used to.
Q&A profile
Interview with award-winning author Martha LaGuardia Kotite, who tells extraordinary stories of courage and survival, celebrating the remarkable actions of those she worked alongside during nearly 25 years in the U.S Coast Guard.
Trend
Upon arriving in the U.S., I was forced to admit to a group of hip twenty-somethings that I had never in my life heard of bubble tea. But knowing what devoted tea enthusiasts we Brits are, why are we so late to the bubble-tea-party?
Narrative
When you're assigned to do something that scares you by a professor, there's no two ways about it: you just have to do it. And write about it.
Event
George's Island, off the coast of Boston, Mass., is popular with ghost hunters. And I'm always up for being told a good story.
Event
As a young digital reporter in the 1990s, Adam Penenberg "changed the face of online journalism" when he exposed Stephen Glass' fabricated stories in The New Republic. The scandal was documented in the 2003 film Shattered Glass. In the fall of 2013, he also dropped by my journalism ethics class for a Q&A session.