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Justin Weiss

Buffalo
Covers:  Mental health, men's and women's basketball, football, economics, COVID-19
@columbia & @ubuffalo alum🎓 x 26.2 x9🏃

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Justin Weiss is a journalist from Long Island, New York. He is currently the senior features editor at The Spectrum, the independent student newspaper of the University at Buffalo. He has covered mental health, men's and women's basketball, football, economics and COVID-19 for The Spectrum, Elite Sports NY and the Long Island Herald. He is double majoring in public health and journalism.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No, but I wish!

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Will McAvoy from The Newsroom. He cared about nothing else but covering the news the right way. That's exactly how we as journalists should approach our jobs.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Said Thomas Jefferson: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” The biggest check on government is journalism. It's of paramount importance that things continue that way.

Awards

Adelphi Quill Award

2016 - Freelance Journalism

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