We first met Mari Fagel as a prospective Northwestern student in our fall 2005 issue. Since then she's become an award-winning reporter and anchor on Northwestern News Network. She worked on NBC’s presidential election coverage at the Democratic and Republican conventions and the election-night rally in Chicago's Grant Park. Fagel also worked with Fox News Chicago special projects reporter Mark Saxenmeyer on in-depth investigative stories. And during senior year she worked as a general assignment reporter at KSNT-TV in Topeka, Kan., for her journalism residency.

“Northwestern fully, fully prepared me for what I want to do,” Fagel says. “People at the station tell me how lucky I am to go to Northwestern. Thanks to Medill, I know how to edit, I know how to write, I know how to shoot, and I know how to be on-air. Medill has really prepared me.”

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