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Column: Student Journalists are Beat Writers too

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I was scrolling through Twitter on Monday when I saw a tweet talking about how there are no beat writers covering Loyola basketball. I couldn’t help but wonder — what does that make me, Lu and Fernando?

The Loyola men’s basketball team played in 33 games this season and our small but mighty group took on all of them. We covered every game, home and away, dealt with seemingly constant breaking news and wrote long form stories like features and data analysis.

We did this all on top of being full-time students with complete course loads and personal lives that expand beyond the world of sports.