User:Shawn Arrajj

Shawn Arrajj was born in Rochester, NY.

Life and Career
Arrajj graduated from Medaille College in Buffalo, NY in 2010 with a B.S. in communications. While attending Medaille, he was the News Editor of the Medaille Perspective, where he was assigned to cover topics ranging from Medaille's developing foreign exchange program to various beat stories involving President Dr. Richard T. Jurasek. Arrajj was also the Managing Editor of the college's InCite Magazine.

While attending Medaille, Arrajj interned as a staff reporter with Bee Group Newspapers in Buffalo and Messenger Post News in Canandaigua, NY. His stories largely involved attending and reporting on local events, in addition to feature stories profiling notable people in the respective communities.

Arrajj was selected to read at the 10th Annual Media ecology Conference in St. Louis, MO in June, 2009. At the conference, he read a paper he wrote examining the lasting influence of media critic, Neil Postman in the age of the Internet. Arrajj, and the two students who joined him, were the first college students to be selected by the Media Ecology Association to read their work at the conference.

Highlighted Works

 * "Local, Israeli teens bond" Messenger Post News
 * "New phys ed program getting students excited about staying in shape" Bee Group Newspapers
 * "Community 101 gets a $400,000 stamp of approval" Medaille Perspective