On Monday, the 14th of May, Liz Geigerich came to Peekskill High School to talk to the Mercury staff about online journalism. She discussed how she came to be a journalist, and her current job working for the Patch. Liz explained that going into col
lege, she had not planned to be a journalist, instead she had worked to recieive a degree in communciations. How she came to be a journalist was through the world-wide catastrophie of Hurricane Katrina. The college she attended was located in New Orleans which gave her the “inside scoop” as to what was actually going on. She explained that she was inspired to write by the people and events around her, and that is what ultimately lead to her job at the Patch. She inspired the Mercury staff to conintue our writing because never before had we realized
that we could have a job in journlism. We thank you to Liz Geigerich for sharing her story with us, so now we can create stories of our own.