Neighbors
may remember a little Eleanor La Prade conducting interviews as a precocious
four-year-old with notebooks "borrowed" from her father. La Prade,
hailing from a newspaper family, has always had a passion for community
journalism.
Now
as a reporter for the Delaware State News she looks to make a difference on a
local level in Kent County.
Originally from Salisbury, M.D., Ms. La Prade ventured up the coast to New
England to study literature at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New
Hampshire. In addition to enjoying the coffee shops and book stores in the
Boston Metropolitan area, she interned for two semesters with The Telegraph in
Nashua, N.H. with the copy desk as well as a special assignment reporter.
When she's not in the newsroom, Ms. La Prade enjoys reading the classics,
writing, as well as traveling. She has bartered with gypsies in Rome and taught
photography at a Boy Scouts camp in Wyoming.
Jen
Rini started work as a reporter at The Delaware State News on Aug. 27.
When
she heard she got the job, Ms. Rini scrambled to move from Morristown, New
Jersey. She said everything fell into place; in just two weeks, she was
shopping for a toaster for her downtown Dover apartment.
There
was only one obstacle. “Being from New Jersey, I’m going to have to learn to
pump my own gas,” she said.
Ms.
Rini has been pursuing journalism since high school, when her big dream was to
be a features editor for Glamour.
She
graduated from University of Delaware in January with a major in mass
communications. In college, she wrote for The Review, U. Del.’s student
newspaper, and interned for National Geographic Kids.
In
her free time, Ms. Rini dances and practices yoga. She’s excited to get
involved in the community – and, through her work, make difference in it.
