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Stan Alcorn '07 works in New York City as the web editor for the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. His email is stan.alcorn-at-gmail.com.

Easha Anand '08 has moved down to New Orleans to take up a post as a staff writer for the Times-Picayune. Reach her at easha.anand-at-gmail.com.

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Allison Battey '08 spent a summer in New York City interning with new investigative reporting project Pro Publica before entering consulting. She can be reached at allison.battey-at-gmail.com

Laura Bennett '09 will be in Boston this summer interning at the Boston Globe. In the fall, she will be in Spain on a Fulbright fellowship researching the ways in which the Spanish mainstream media is adapting to incorporate citizen journalism.

Michael Birnbaum '08 is working at the Washington Post following a summer internship at the paper. His email address is michael.j.birnbaum-at-gmail.com.

Kelly Bit '07 parlayed an internship with Bloomberg News into her current position as a segment producer for Bloomberg TV, working on the 6-8am show "Morning Call." Email Kelly at kelly.bit-at-aya.yale.edu or kelly.j.bit-at-gmail.com.

Russell Brandom '07 is busy with a variety of writing jobs from his base in New York City. He's a the main writer for the NY edition of UrbanDaddy, an email magazine publishing five times a week. He also blogs at UrbanDaddy's getkempt.com, a men's style blog. He also freelances book reviews for the L Magazine and the Sacramento News Review, and travel reviews for baraaza.com. Reach him at russell.brandom-at-gmail.com.

Elizabeth Dickinson '07 is home after a year working in Nigeria for the Economist. She's unsure what her next move will be, but is looking for a job in the vicinity of New York City. Her email is elizabeth.a.dickinson-at-gmail.com.

Romy Drucker '07 is living in New York City working at the city's Department of Education, Fund for Public School. Her email is romy.drucker-at-gmail.com.

Daniel Fromson '09 will spend his summer in New York City interning at Harper's Magazine. His email is Daniel.Fromson-at-gmail.com

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Kent Garber '07 has moved to DC, where he's covering the energy and environment beat for the U.S. News & World report. Before his staff job there, he worked for them as a year-long intern, writing for the magazine's Nation and World section. His email is kent.garber-at-gmail.com.

Ross Goldberg '08 is living in New York City, interning for the New York Sun. He can be reached at rossg1005-at-gmail.com.

Zack Greenburg '07 has been working as a staff reporter at Forbes magazine in New York city for the past year, writing, he says, about "everything from hedge funds to vintage airplanes to 50 Cents." He's also freelancing occasionally for outlets including the Washington Post, Dan's Papers and the Huffington Post. His email is zack.greenburg-at-gmail.com.

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Rob Inglis '07 wins for most peripatetic YJI alum. After a few months as a researcher in Antarctica [sic], he moved to Washington State to continue environmental science research. He now is now working at a six-month writing internship with High Country News, a magazine based in Paonia, Colorado that covers politics, environmental issues, and cultural trends in the rural West. His email is robert.d.inglis-at-gmail.com.

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Stephanie Ogburn FES '07, based in rural southwest Colorado, just left her journalism day job and is now multitasking as a freelancer, organic farmer, and part-time blogger. Her focus is on science and environmental journalism, from Washington's meddling with the Clean Air Act to the American West's uranium boom. Email her at stephanie.ogburn-at-gmail.com. She says she's "always interested in picking up contacts at 'zines that would be interested in publishing human-environment stories."

Robert Quigley '09 will be working for Abrams Research in New York City after graduation. His email is Robert.J.Quigley-at-gmail.com.

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Noam Rudnick '07 has temporarily left journalism and is preparing to enter an MD/PhD program.

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David Sadighian '07 will be returning to New Haven in the fall to enroll at Yale's School of Architecture. Reach him, again, at david.sadighian-at-yale.edu.

Dana Schuster '07 balances a full-time job and her freelancing from New York City. She works for Hearst Magazines International as the associate international editor of Harper's Bazaar. On the side, she has been freelancing for the New York Post, New York Press, Time Out New York, and a few other publications. Her email is danaschuster-at-gmail.com.

David Sherfinski is in D.C., working as a staff reporter for the Washington Examiner. While at Yale, he was an occasional freelancer for Sports Illustrated. Reach him at david.sherfinski-at-gmail.com.

David Shieh '08 spent a summer in Austin as an intern with the Austin American Statesman. His email is david.shieh-at-aya.yale.edu.

Justin Shubow LAW '08 will start this fall as an assistant editor of Commentary Magazine. He would happy to answer questions from other YJI scholars at jshubow-at-gmail.com.

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Tyler Theofilos '08 is living in New York City, interning for the College Music Journal.

Joshua Thomas '07 is currently in Hattiesburg, MS doing "some jouralismytype stuff" as part of his job as Communications/Measurement & Evaluation Manager of Digital Opportunity Trust USA, a nonprofit (http://usa.dotrust.org). Come fall, he'll attend law school at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville. Josh is reachable at joshua.thomas-at-aya.yale.edu (or joshiet-at-gmail.com) and would love to hear from other JD'ed journalists about how they did (or plan to) find their way as lawyer-writers.

Cari Tuna '08 has moved to San Francisco where she is working for the SF bureau of the Wall Street Journal. Reach her at cari.e.tuna-at-gmail.com

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Nicholas Vinocur '07 is in the process of moving to London to start in September a 9 month contract with Thomson Reuters as a trainee in their graduate journalism program. He says: "I would definitely point Yalies toward that -- it's a fully paid deal with the possibility of becoming a correspondent at the end. Also very competitive and language-driven." Before that, he worked for a year as a web producer for the New Yorker, though does not recommend that other aspiring journalists take a technical position as a way of getting their foot in the door. His email is nicholasvinocur-at-gmail.com.