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The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

Robert Kugler, his wife Kristen Beatty and their two children.

WSU alum uses life experiences to connect with, encourage others

ANNA ADAMS, Managing editor February 8, 2024

Life was not easy for WSU alum Robert Kugler, who grew up in a single-parent home in Nebraska and did not have the money to pay for an education after high school. He joined the Marine Reserves in 2000...

Gunner Miller at the 2023 Apple Cup, doing coachs film for the WSU football team, Nov. 25, 2023, in Seattle, Wash.

Gunner Miller does it all en route to Murrow graduation

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor February 1, 2024

Gunner Miller, senior broadcast news major, has done just about everything there is to do at the Murrow College and beyond, but it was one of the last things he did that made him realize he knew exactly...

Team Birch posing in front of Goertzen Hall, the pre-Rural Reporting Plunge meeting point, Sept. 29, Pullman, Wash.

Evergreeners revisit rural Inland Northwest

For about 24 hours, Daily Evergreen reporters and editors alike joined dozens of other WSU students in this year’s Rural Reporting Plunge from Sept. 29–30. The Plunge is an annual trip wherein teams...

Damien Alvarado and Brinkley Hill in graduation regalia.

From Murrow to Medford, a budding WSU love story

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor May 4, 2023

After they first met at a Cable 8 Productions informational meeting, Brinkley Hill went home and told her roommates about the people she met. Her roommates said that one of the guys, Damien Alvarado, sounded...

Baquet now leads an investigative fellowship through the New York Times

Dean Baquet receives Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award at 47th Symposium

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor April 6, 2023

From winning Pulitzer Prizes, serving as executive editor at the Los Angeles Times and New York Times to now taking on a new ambitious fellowship program, Dean Baquet has made the most of his several-decade-long...

Josie Goodrich conducting interviews in Narok, Kenya, with participants of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Animal Health, March 14, 2023.

Cougar Cowgirl: Kenyan Edition

JOSIE GOODRICH, Reporter/Copy Editor March 23, 2023

I traded in my rope for a camera and my horse Ruby for some zebras. Over spring break I went to Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a journalist group for the Murrow College of Communication. The trip was fully...

Murrow students will travel to Arizona and New  York City over spring break.

Two big Spring Break trips featuring Murrow students; Evergreeners

BRANDON WILLMAN, Multimedia editor March 3, 2023

The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at WSU is sponsoring two 2023 spring break trips for current Murrow students to travel and get hands-on experience in journalistic settings, as well as having...

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Professors find love at Murrow College

ALISA VOLZ, Evergreen reporter February 9, 2023

When Tracy Simmons moved to Pullman, she never expected to find love at Murrow College. “I knew there was a position coming open and I was eager to get back here because it's a really good journalism...

The Board of Regents voted to approve a new name for the Presidents House on Nov. 18.

WSU renames President’s House in honor of Ida Lou Anderson

JOSIAH PIKE, Evergreen news co-editor November 30, 2022

WSU’s President’s House will be officially renamed in honor of former faculty member Ida Lou Anderson, following a vote of approval by the Board of Regents on Nov. 18. WSU Pullman Chancellor Elizabeth...

Volunteer firefighter Blake Blauert cooks hashbrowns during Lincoln County Fire District Fours annual Hunters Breakfast fundraiser, Oct. 15, in Reardan, Wash.

Daily Evergreen reporters take the plunge

In under 24 hours, The Daily Evergreen reporters drove to rural communities, many of which they had never heard of before, and searched for local stories of what makes their town unique.  Sponsored...

“She’s surpassed everyone who has taught her at Murrow, but she still has that same core of curiosity, initiative and voice that occupies her writing 10 years later,” said Benjamin Shors, Journalism and Media Production chair for the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.

WSU alumna finds success writing at LA Times

LIAM CONNORS, Deputy news editor April 11, 2022

In 2012, then-WSU student and Daily Evergreen news reporter Andrea Castillo faced issues of self-doubt and wondered if her aspirations of being a print journalist were just a naive attempt to somehow change...

Award-winning journalist Ann Curry will receive the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication Lifetime Achievement Award at this years Murrow Symposium.

Murrow Symposium returns to Pullman

SAM TAYLOR, Evergreen sports co-editor April 4, 2022

The Murrow Symposium is returning to the Pullman campus for the first time in three years and will offer students the chance to connect and learn from communication industry professionals. “We came...

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