{"682401":{"#nid":"682401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"From the \u2018Technique\u2019 to the \u2018Wall Street Journal\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Cole Murphy posted his last film blog for his high school newspaper, he assumed it would be his final foray into media as he prepared to study business at Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Alpharetta, Georgia, native never expected that, after graduating from the Institute, he would be moving to New York City to work for the\u003Cem\u003E Wall Street Journal\u003C\/em\u003E as one of three recipients of the Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurphy was intent on pursuing business strategy and finance opportunities, completing internships at VIVA Finance, an Atlanta startup, and The Home Depot during his first two years at Tech. Looking for a creative outlet and a break from his coursework, he published an op-ed in the \u003Cem\u003ETechnique\u003C\/em\u003E, Georgia Tech\u0027s student-run newspaper, and rediscovered a desire to write. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe became a regular in the paper\u0027s opinion section before becoming its entertainment editor and eventually the editor-in-chief after a summer internship in Washington, D.C. It was during his time in the nation\u0027s capital that Murphy says he was able to get a real-world education in journalism. He landed a job with \u003Cem\u003EThe Dispatch\u003C\/em\u003E as a reporter, and the pace of the industry is something that he wouldn\u0027t trade for anything. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I love the energy of a newsroom. It\u0027s amazing to be around writers I\u0027ve read for a long time and to be able to bounce ideas off them. When a big story is developing, everyone is talking about the same thing and finding different ways to cover it. There is nothing like it,\u0022 he said. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven as his career aspirations shifted, Murphy continued to dive deeper into the Scheller College of Business curriculum. With a strong interest in global politics and economics, his major gives him a unique outlook on current events and has shaped his reporting. Because Georgia Tech doesn\u0027t have a traditional journalism program, Murphy believes its student media benefits from having an \u0022outsider perspective.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Not many people come here thinking they\u0027ll go into journalism, so it pulls in a group of students, like myself, who seek out an opportunity to reconnect with writing or find a new passion,\u201d he said. \u201cIt brings an authenticity that other student papers may not have. There was no one to teach us what kinds of questions to ask when reporting for a piece, so we just asked whatever we thought people would be interested in.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurphy walked across the stage at Commencement this spring and will begin his internship at the WSJ\u0027s opinion section in the fall after finishing his final courses this summer. The fellowship, which lasts nine months, is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Joseph Rago, a member of the publication\u0027s editorial board who died in 2017 at the age of 34. To Murphy, journalism is \u0022a craft as much as it is a job,\u0022 but regardless of the subject matter, he wants readers to feel that anything he writes is guided by the principle of \u0022telling the truth and backing it up with facts.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Business administration graduate Cole Murphy is one of three recipients of the 2025 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism. 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