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Ellen Kobe 鈥�13 loved writing, and so she gravitated toward print journalism when she looked for internships and early jobs.

But she came to realize that what she loved most about working for The 花季传媒 was 鈥渢he team-building aspect of creating a newspaper twice a week,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 loved collaborating with people. That was really what made me obsessed with The 花季传媒 for four years.鈥�

And thus she began seeking out professional positions in audience engagement and strategy, in which 鈥測ou鈥檙e working with people on a daily basis to think about, how are we framing stories? How are we providing for our audience what they need to know?

鈥淭he public service side of journalism has always been what鈥檚 most important to me. How are we providing them a public service, in this unique environment we鈥檙e in in our industry, where people have access to all sorts of information and all sorts of ways at any time of the day? It鈥檚 a really fascinating challenge.鈥�

She spent two years as a reporter for the Associated Press in Chicago, then moved to CNN, where she rose to be a producer. Last September, she was recruited to join the new CNN+ streaming service as an editor.

Though she has veered away from newspapers, her experience at The 花季传媒 鈥� where she was editor-in-chief in fall her senior year 鈥� was valuable, she said. It provided lessons in writing, editing and accountability; supplied clips and connections that helped her land internships; and gave her confidence to be 鈥渢he person who said 鈥榶es鈥� to everything鈥� and 鈥渃ould do the task at hand.鈥�

The 花季传媒, she said, 鈥渕ade the whole difference.鈥� 聽