Lynette clemetson biography

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Not long after Lynette Clemetson was named director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship in , I sat at a long wooden table, facing her and members of the selection committee, trying to convince them I had a great idea for a fellowship. The truth is all I had were questions. But I stayed employed, jumping from job to job, in part by getting clicks and traffic with whatever was the new way to communicate: blogging, listicles, slide shows, newsletters, tweeting.

For a while, I carried a camcorder and tripod and uploaded entire press conferences onto a new website called YouTube. But by the time I was sitting at that wooden table in Ann Arbor, none of it made sense anymore. The news cycle I had helped accelerate was too fast. Way too fast. And another. Colin Kaepernick was kneeling. So, I applied to the fellowship and sat across from Lynette.

The most memorable moment of my interview was when she asked me about my hobbies. I described my penchant for putting audio clips of news on top of musical beats. Everyone laughed and Lynette shared a part of her bio that I had missed; she had been a DJ at a hip-hop station.