Essence Wiley and Omari Foote discuss their plan to bring back Howard University’s official student-led magazine, Cover to Cover.
How Two Howard University Upperclassmen Plan to Capture Life at The Mecca What is the goal in starting this magazine? To creatively encapsulate life at Howard University and give students in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications another opportunity to get in-field experience.
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What sections will you cover? We will cover Culture, Politics, Lifestyle, Sports, Television, and Film.
Who are you looking for? We are looking for How will this differ from reporters, other campus media photographers, outlets? graphic designers, We would like to partner editors, creative with 101 Magazine to directors, social media provide students with more team opportunities to put their work out there. The revamped edition of Cover 2 Cover is fun. It’s relevant. It’s creative. While the principles of journalism are our priority, we want to give students an outlet where they have free range to create engaging content that reflects the reality of being a young, black college student at THE HBCU in 2022.
“There is a bubbling creative renaissance and we want to make sure it’s captured”