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Joahan Lopez:
What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the state press play podcast releasing in the summer. So I hope everybody's having a great summer I'm Joahan Lopez the host for this special feature episode of state press play and I had the pleasure to interviewing Celeste Seppesy she was pretty much a former state press alumni. She worked with the magazine that was like her thing back in the 2005 range with the organization and we had a great conversation she gave great insight and and I had a lot of fun editing this podcast. I hope you guys enjoy.
Joahan Lopez:
Hello and welcome back to the State Press Play podcast. And I am here with Celeste Seppesy, who is a State Press alumni. And not only that, she is an assistant teacher professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. You've probably seen her around. She has quite she has quite the history. She has a Bachelor degree here at Cronkite. Then she has an Italian degree, which is pretty cool. Then she's got Master Degree in digital audience. So you can say she's a jack of all trade. But Celeste, thank you so much for joining this. How are we doing today?
Celeste Seppesy:
Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm doing pretty well. Thanks. Ready for the semester be over.
Joahan Lopez:
I'm right there with you. But you know, we got a few more podcasts and few more weeks, right? So, um, actually, I've actually ran into you talked in my class before. I remember you told us a story about how you had quite the untraditional path to the State Press, right? You want to tell that story to us?
Celeste Seppesy:
So I was very nerdy in that I applied for the State Press when I was still in high school. So I had a mentor who went to Cronkite, and he told me, like, if you want to be legit, you'll be the only freshman on, like, first year freshman or first semester freshman on the safe press staff. And so I was a columnist for my first year, and then I moved into the magazine and eventually landed as magazine editor in chief. So I never did like the news thing. I just wasn't a news girly. I was more interested in doing kind of more in depth, more narrative style writing. So I did the State Press for three years, and then I my time was up, and I bounced
To hear more from Joahan and Celeste please tune in to State Press Play.
Joahan Lopez:
Thank you so much to the great Celeste Pesci for joining the podcast and giving such great insights and conversation.
I had a blast recording this and editing this. So hope everyone's having a great summer. This will be it for the special feature edition of State Press Play,
and the State Press Play is produced by our podcast desk editor, Connor Greenwall.
Special thanks to our managing team, Ava Peguese and Matthew Marengo, and our original music by Ellie Willard and Jake LaRoux. I'll see ya next time. Thank you for tuning in. Peace!
Joahan is a senior studying sports journalism. This is his first semester with The State Press. He has also worked at The Cut Network, Inferno Intel and Fox.
