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Observer Staff Report | Monday, February 11, 2019
Sophomores Charlotte Edmonds, Maria Leontaras and Mary Steurer and junior Natalie Weber will help oversee The Observer’s Editorial Board next year, incoming Editor-in-Chief Kelli Smith announced Sunday. Edmonds will take on the Managing Editor position, while Leontaras, Steurer and Weber will all serve as Assistant Managing Editors. All four women will officially begin their new
Observer Staff Report | Monday, February 4, 2019
The Observer General Board elected former Associate News Editor Kelli Smith as Editor-in-Chief for the 2019-2020 term Friday. “Kelli is a standout reporter with excellent journalism instincts, and her contributions to The Observer over the past two years have been invaluable,” current Editor-in-Chief Courtney Becker said. “I have every confidence that she will do a
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, August 17, 2018
Since its inception, The Observer has served two campus communities just north of South Bend. Over the last 51 years, student journalists from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s have helped tell their classmates’ stories and report from their campuses as they have undergone profound changes. But over that time, The Observer’s coverage of the tri-campus community
Michael Ivey | Friday, May 18, 2018
I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just arrived at Holy Cross College for my freshman year in late August 2014. My older brother Cameron, who attended Notre Dame, urged me to go to the extracurricular fair the University holds at the beginning of every year to see if there was anything I
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, April 22, 2018
For the fifth annual Notre Dame Day, we decided to get in touch with some of our Observer alumni to see what they’re up to now, in journalism and a number of other industries. We’ve featured just a few below, many of whom said the skills they learned during their time at the paper were
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, April 20, 2018
On April 4, 2018, the Editorial Board of Southern Methodist University’s student newspaper, The Daily Campus, wrote an opinion piece titled “The kids aren’t all right: Who really killed the student free press of SMU.” “It’s not often that a newspaper has the self-indulgency to be able to write about itself, but this anomaly isn’t one to
Observer Staff Report | Monday, April 9, 2018
The Observer won 28 awards at the 2018 Indiana Collegiate Press Association (ICPA) awards in Indianapolis on Saturday, including second place in the Division I Newspaper of the Year category and second place in the Best Overall Website category. The News department won third place in the Best In-Depth story category for current Editor-in-Chief and former
Katie Galioto | Thursday, March 8, 2018
Three years ago, I trudged into The Observer office on a Saturday morning. My editor said she needed all hands on deck, so — even though I was just a freshman, newly trained to layout the paper — I headed to the basement of South Dining Hall. It was less than two days after the
Rachel O'Grady | Wednesday, March 7, 2018
My friends at The Observer have always been there for me when I needed them, starting with the time I didn’t even know I needed them. I had just had one of the worst weeks of my life during the second semester of my sophomore year. I felt out of place at Notre Dame, like
Benjamin Padanilam | Friday, March 2, 2018
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” When I took over as Editor-in-Chief a year ago, I had no idea what exactly I was getting myself into. Sure, I had some expectation of the level of responsibility that would be required of me.