{"id":7032,"date":"2013-12-17T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:48:10","slug":"john-dykstra-13-named-journal-review-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/12\/17\/john-dykstra-13-named-journal-review-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dykstra \u201913 named Journal Review reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7033\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/Dykstra375.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7033\" title=\"Dykstra375\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/Dykstra375-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/12\/Dykstra375-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/12\/Dykstra375.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John, man-on-the-street as an intern in Summer 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><strong>John Dykstra \u201913<\/strong> was recently named as a reporter for the Crawfordsville <em>Journal Review<\/em>.\u00a0 It is a new position for John, but he is very familiar with the <em>JR<\/em> \u2013 as a place that introduced him to journalism in a small town such as Crawfordsville when he was a summer intern in 2012 (which was funded by a Lilly Business Internship Grant through Wabash College).\u00a0 John had worked as a reporter for <em>The Bachelor<\/em> as a freshman, moving up to Editor-in-Chief by his senior year.\u00a0 Since graduation last May, John has been a page designer and weekly sports columnist at the <em>JR<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Introducing himself in print as a new reporter last week, John shared in his column, \u201cMy experiences with <em>The Bachelor<\/em> and <em>The Journal Review<\/em> have reinforced my passion for writing. This community has had a significant impact on my development as a writer, and that will continue to be the case.\u00a0 I am devoted to writing the stories of Montgomery County and surrounding areas, and welcome all lines of communication. If you have a news tip, please feel free to contact me via email at jdykstra@jrpress.com or by phone at 362-1200, ext. 124.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">If you see me walking around town or at a sports event, feel free to introduce yourself. I value personal connections and would be happy to get to know all of you.\u00a0 I will continue to write my weekly sports column, for baseball is another passion of mine and it has been a busy offseason in the sport. I also plan on picking up a weekly column in the &#8220;Viewpoints&#8221; section that may cover a few coming of age and family-related stories.\u00a0 Now, let us begin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Here is a link to his column today:\u00a0 &#8220;<\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/opinion\/article_902d1800-66a2-11e3-a4c0-0019bb2963f4.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Cambria\">An abundance of support<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Congratulations, John!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dykstra \u201913 was recently named as a reporter for the Crawfordsville Journal Review.\u00a0 It is a new position for John, but he is very familiar with the JR \u2013 as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}