2003 Interns

		Lila Arzua, Editorial Page Lila is a graduate student in the Columbia University School of Journalism and will get her degree in May. She graduated from Yale with a degree in Spanish and political science in 1998. From June 1998 through June 1999, she was an Editorial Board Fellow at USA Today. She was a reporter for the Miami Herald from September 2000 to August 2002. Other experience includes a Phillips Foundation fellowship (1999-2000) and a Reader’s Digest internship (1997).
		Emily Badger, Sports Reporter Emily is a senior at Northwestern University, where she majors in journalism. She has interned at the Cleveland Plain Dealer (summer 2002), the Oregonian (spring 2002), and Chicago Athlete magazine (summer 2001). She’s worked on her campus newspaper, the Daily Northwestern, since 2000, and is currently managing editor. She’s been deputy sports editor (winter 2002) and has covered football, baseball, women’s basketball and other beats.
		Garance Burke, Metro Reporter, Montgomery County Garance is a student at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She received a B.A. in anthropology from Brown University in 1997. She has been a California-based correspondent for the Boston Globe (2000-2003), a researcher for The Washington Post’s Mexico City bureau (1999-2000) and a staff reporter, assignment editor and translator for El Financiero in Mexico (1997-1999). Her freelance work has been featured in publications ranging from the San Francisco Chronicle to KidsPost.
		Reilly J. Capps, Style Reporter Reilly is a senior majoring in the humanities at the University of Colorado. While in high school, he interned for two summers for the Aurora (Colo.) Sentinel. Since then he has had internships at the Daily Oklahoman (2001) and the Boston Globe (2002), for whom he continues to work as a correspondent. He was Opinion Page editor, a reporter and a columnist of the Oklahoma Daily, student paper at the University of Oklahoma, which he attended before transferring to Colorado.
		Ryan Clark, Sports Reporter Ryan is a December 2002 graduate of Western Kentucky University with a major in print journalism. After graduation he interned at the Orlando Sentinel. Last summer he interned at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ryan also has interned at the Baltimore Sun (2001), the Virginian-Pilot (2000) and the weekly Cadiz (Ky.) Record. He had several positions at his student newspaper, the College Heights Herald, including editor-in-chief (August-December 2001). He’s also been a stringer for the Denver Post, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the (Owensboro, Ky.) Messenger-Inquirer, the Associated Press and ESPN.com.
		Rebecca Dana, Style Reporter Rebecca is a junior majoring in history at Yale. She was a Metro intern last summer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The previous summer she was an intern at the Hartford, Conn., bureau of the New York Times. During her junior year, Rebecca has been editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News. She previously was the newspaper’s student life reporter.
		Charles Duhigg, Financial Reporter Charles is an MBA student at the Harvard Business School. His undergraduate degree is in history from Yale. He has written freelance articles for the New Republic since 1999 and for the Cairo (Egypt) Times (1997-98). While at Yale he freelanced for the Albuquerque Tribune and wrote for the Yale Daily News. Duhigg has also attended Harvard Law School and the University of New Mexico School of Law.
		Farhana Hossain, News Artist Farhana is a senior majoring in English at City College of New York. She has been freelancing as a graphics editor for the New York Times since 1999. She interned as a researcher and reporter for the graphics department at the Boston Globe in the summer of 2001 and was a visual journalism fellow at the Poynter Institute in the summer of 2000.
		Julie Ishida, Health Julie, a second-year medical student at Stanford, is The Post’s fellow from the Kaiser Urban Health Journalism program. Last summer she covered science and health for the Sacramento Bee as a mass media fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As a senior at UC Berkeley, she was editor-in-chief of Berkeley Scientific, a biannual journal that publishes science features and research conducted by undergraduates. She hopes to incorporate writing into her medical career.
		Ernesto Londoño, Metro Reporter, Southern Maryland Ernesto is a senior majoring in journalism and Latin American studies at the University of Miami. He spent part of his senior year traveling with the Semester at Sea program. Last summer he was a fellow at Northwestern University’s Academy for Alternative Journalism. He freelanced for the Miami Herald from March to June, 2002, and had a reporting internship and freelanced for El Nuevo Herald during 2001 and 2002. He had a reporting internship at the Buenos Aires Herald (summer 2001) and at CNN en Español (February-May 2000). He has freelanced since May 2000 for the Associated Press in Miami. He received the Miami Hurricane reporter-of-the-year award for 2000-01 and 2001-02.
		Joshua Partlow, Financial Reporter Joshua is in the second and final year of a dual-degree graduate program at Columbia University. He has received a master of science in journalism (2002) and will receive his M.S. in international affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs this spring. He has a B.A. in environmental sciences and policy from Duke University. Last summer Joshua interned at the Buenos Aires Herald. At Duke he edited the Commons, the university’s only undergraduate environmental publication.
		Theresa Rupar, National Copy Editor Theresa Rupar is a senior majoring in journalism at the University of North Carolina. She is this year’s Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern. Last summer she edited the National Study on Youth and Religion, UNC-Chapel Hill. In 2001 she was a summer intern for NBC News London. This year she is chief of the Daily Tar Heel copy desk, on which she has worked since her freshman year.
		Sabaa Saleem, Foreign Copy Editor Sabaa is a senior majoring in communication at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has been tutoring students in composition writing this year. She was a current programs intern at CBS Entertainment last summer. Sabaa has been a member of the UCLA Daily Bruin copy desk since transferring there from the University of California, San Diego, in 2001. This year she's a copy deputy on the desk. She was a page designer for the UCSD Guardian.
		Alissa Schepisi, Metro Copy Editor Alissa is a senior majoring in journalism at the University of Maryland. She has been an intern on the news copy desk at USA Today (summer 2002 and second semester 2003). She also helped copy edit USA Today’s 2002 election coverage. She was a correspondent for the weekly South County News in Ellwood City, Pa. (summer 1999), and a reporting intern for the New Castle (Pa.) News (summers 1997-99). At the Diamondback, the university’s student daily, she’s served as managing editor (May-December 2002), news assignments editor, commentary editor and copy editor.
		Hyosub Shin, Photographer Hyosub is a graduate photojournalism student in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. He has a B.F.A. degree in advertising photography from the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology. He also has a B.S. in computer science from Soonchunhyang University in Asan-Si, Korea. He has completed three photo internships, at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. (June-December 2001), the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press (winter 2000) and The Bay City (Mich.) Times (August-December 1999).
		Robin Shulman, Metro Reporter, Loudoun County Robin is a graduate student in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. She received a B.A. in English literature from Columbia University. As a freelance writer, she’s covered stories in Mexico, England, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank as well as California and New York. She completed a reporting internship at the Los Angeles Times (May-August 2001) and was a staff copy editor and freelance writer for Ha’aretz-International Herald Tribune (1998-99 and February to August 2000).
		Melanie Starkey, Financial Copy Desk Melanie is a senior majoring in journalism at the University of Maryland. She completed a copy editing internship at the Daily Record in Baltimore last summer. She’s had a reporting internship at the York (Pa.) Daily Record (summer 2000) and also freelanced there. She’s held several positions on U-Md’s Diamondback daily—deputy managing editor (spring 2003), staff editorial writer and deputy opinion page editor (fall 2002) and copy editor (spring 2002).
		Jose Antonio Vargas, Metro Reporter, City Desk Jose is a junior majoring in political science at San Francisco State University. He was a summer reporting intern at the Philadelphia Daily News in 2001. The past two years he’s been an editorial assistant, contest coordinator and freelance writer/columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He also was a reporting intern on the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention newspaper, the ASNE Reporter, in April 2002.
		William Wan, Metro Reporter, Howard County William is a graduate student in public affairs reporting at the University of Maryland. He earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of Chicago. He has reported for Capital News Service (January-May 2003) and has had reporting internships at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (summer 2002), Cox Newspapers Washington bureau (spring 2002) and the Arizona Republic (summer 2001). He also had a copy-editing/reporting internship at the University of Chicago Magazine (August 2001-March 2002). He was a science and style reporter on the Chicago Maroon from November 1999 to March 2002.
		Simone Weichselbaum, Metro Reporter, City Desk Simone is working as the Washington reporting intern for the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer while finishing her senior year as a history major at American University. She has completed internships at Newsday (summer 2002), the Associated Press (fall 2001) and the Press & Sun Bulletin (Binghamton, N.Y., summer 2001). She has also written for Howard University’s Hilltop newspaper and for the Eagle at American.
		Griffin Witte, Metro Reporter, Alexandria/Arlington Griffin, a researcher for Managing Editor Steve Coll, has a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University. His research for a book Coll is writing on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan includes original reporting in Washington and Kabul. He reported for the Miami Herald from August 2000 to May 2001, then spent a semester at Columbia University studying for a master of fine arts in nonfiction. He has had summer internships at the Florida Times Union (1999), the Sunday Times of London (August1998), the Daily Record in Parsippany, N.J.(1998), and the Journal-News in West Nyack, N.Y. (1997).
		Zachary Wittig, News Desk Layout/Design Editor Zach is a junior majoring in journalism at Ohio State University. As graphics and presentation editor for the student daily, the Lantern, he is responsible for design of Page One and special sections, as well as the newspaper’s illustrations, charts and maps. He spent last summer as a news design intern for the Detroit News. He worked as a photographer, writer and designer during high school and the summer of 2001 at the Review in Alliance, Ohio.