On Fandango and Vive

I've been vaguely hyping this up for a while, so I'm excited to finally talk about it. A few weeks ago I had a lovely conversation Paul Yanover, the President of Fandango. I put together a Spotlight all about his career path from being a software-writing USC graduate to heading one of the largest names in …

Tales from a digital voice

With the end of the semester coming up, we had our last big Society of Professional Journalists event today. It was another guest speaker: Sonya Quick from the nonprofit Voice of OC. Plus donuts. But the donuts unfortunately did not get into this Tweet I did: https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1118629622063611904 This talk was slightly less hands-on than our last guest's …

Opening a forum

Not long ago, the University Honors Program gave me an opportunity to add "event planner" onto my résumé. Now it let me add "forum moderator" to the list as well. For the last few days, the program has been holding Open Forums to introduce students to the three finalists vying to be next year's Associate …

Jason finally learns how to make GIFs

Look at that, folks from yesterday's post. This is what we in the business call "good continuity." For those of you who don't care to dive into the rabbit hole: Hello! Welcome to me talking about today's Society of Professional Journalists — Cal State Fullerton chapter meeting. I've been our branch Secretary for a year …