Senior Justin Hicks to serve as Spring 2014 Editor-in-Chief
Central Michigan Life will see new leadership with the new year.
St. Clair Shores senior Justin Hicks was named as the spring 2014 Editor-in-Chief on Friday afternoon after interviews were held by the Media Board of Directors.
Hicks has spent his seven semesters at CM Life covering everything from hard news to sports. After returning from an internship with the Jackson Citizen-Patriot this semester, Hicks said he feels fortunate to be able to step into his new role.
"I've worked here for seven semesters and really enjoyed my experience," he said. "I've grown a lot as a journalist and I want to help the reporters who are coming after me to have a similar experience."
As Editor-in-Chief, Hicks said he would like to see CM Life do more investigative reporting. He also plans to continue to represent Central Michigan University students.
"I think that CM Life has always been the voice of the students, but I think sometimes we don't do as good a job of interacting with the students and I'd like to improve that on both the social media front and through the comment sections on cm-life.com," he said.
Current editor-in-chief and South Lyon senior Catey Traylor is optimistic about the leadership Hicks will bring to the paper.
"Justin is an excellent journalist and an even better editor. I couldn't have left CM Life in better hands," Traylor said. "I can't wait to see what he'll do as editor-in-chief."
Hicks said his predecessors have left him with a large role to fill, but their successes have motivated him to follow in their footsteps.
Aside from the changes Hicks has in mind, he plans to keep one thing constant: Continue to produce quality work and continue CM Life's status as an award-winning newspaper.
"CM Life has been an award-winning newspaper since I've been here and I want it to continue to be just that in the future," he said.
