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Monday, January 7, 2013

Joe St. Arney ('04)

Joe was editor-in-chief of the Villanovan and graduated from Villanova as an English major in 2004.  He has been working as an editor at NJBIZ;  in a recent blog post his employer spoke of his many talents: "Joe is strong at many aspects of being an editor, and is the most all-around talented journalist I’ve met. But he truly excels at supervising staff;  he’s not just a manager, but a coach and mentor.  At NJBIZ, Joe was a master at taking reporters with no business experience and molding them into aces who could cover complicated industry beats. He was a motivating mentor who stayed late to rework their stories and give them ledes so someone would actually read the copy, took early morning runs to think of the perfect headline for their stories, stayed current on their beats so no news slipped through the cracks, pushed them—hard—to be better reporters all while watching for burnout. And doing it all while keeping everyone laughing."  To read the full post, click here.

Joe at work.