Alex Laughlin
Digital Journalist, Washington, D.C.
Levo League is a social startup designed to elevate young women in the workforce by providing the career resources needed to achieve personal and professional success.
The Red & Black is the award-winning independent newspaper serving the University of Georgia community.
NEWS
Recipe for Press is an online startup that educates entrepreneurs on how to refine their message, engage media and create relationships with editors and bloggers.
HLNtv.com is the online component to national news network HLN. During my time as an intern with HLN, I wrote social media-based stories for the website.
Will Write for Food is a 36-hour program funded by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation. I was one of 21 college journos selected to take over the COSAC Foundation's Homeless Voice newspaper – the second-largest homeless newspaper in the U.S. The paper, written, designed and produced entirely by WWFF participants, was then sold on the streets of South Florida by shelter residents.
TECH
COMMENTARY
Well Begun is Half Done is my blog where I write about everything from personal struggles and successes to pop culture and current events through an intersectional feminist lens. I've written WBHD for four years, and it's been featured on various blogs like The Prepary, Becoming Bradshaw and Athens Street Style.
Flagpole Magazine is the alternative weekly in Athens. I pitched and wrote this piece during my last semester at UGA.