Matt Paolelli is a journalist who works for a university – not a news outlet. After getting his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Paolelli became a technologies specialist, and then a web content producer for the university. By creating eye-catching content for its website, he helps spread the word of student activities, research developments and famous speakers who find their way to the school. "I was told the campus was my beat," he says, "so I pretty much cover whatever is going on."
Initially, he would go from class to class solving the many technical problems that can arise when novice college students get their hands on new technology. Last year, he decided to take what he was teaching and produce content of his own. "Working with students in Medill was great,” he says, “but I got kind of jealous of helping them with their projects and not having any of my own."
For those who think that they might be jumping on to a sinking ship by studying journalism, Paolelli says that limiting an employment search is the worst thing students can do. "Keep your options open. What I'm doing now is not strictly journalism…but the way I look at it is I'm doing features, I'm doing video features on interesting people and things at Northwestern."
Watch the video below for more on Matt Paolelli's breed of journalism
Matt Paolelli: A New Breed of Journalist from Will Storey on Vimeo.
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