Andrea Ciurej

  • Editor’s Notebook: Big Omaha, contributor update and guest posts

    It’s Big Omaha season, can you tell? It’s that time of year when we put our small staff on overdrive to maintain content production and manage one of our premier events. The regular volume of posts (3-4 per day) has decreased, our email reply times have slowed and phone calls aren’t being returned as quickly,…

  • Aspiring journalist Andrea Ciurej shares her SPN internship experience

    (Editor’s Note: We asked our 2010 summer intern, Andrea Ciurej, to share her experience as a summer intern at Silicon Prairie News.) As we approach our mid-20s, we often wonder if getting our first car at 16 and becoming legal at 21 were the last milestones left to look forward to. As a journalist with…

  • Our summer intern Andrea Ciurej rocked. (Thanks Andrea!)

    Last Friday was a bittersweet day in the Silicon Prairie News office. On one hand, we had the pleasure of entertaining more than a hundred guests for our two-year birthday celebration. On the other, one of our ice cream social’s all-star ice cream scoopers, summer intern Andrea Ciurej (left), was wrapping up her summer internship…

  • Congrats to our contributors!

    As the headline reads, we owe a big congrats to some of our contributors. From new jobs and opportunities to graduation…

  • Editor’s Notebook: Big Omaha, content lag and our summer intern

    The video above just about sums up our blog these past few weeks. My apologies to our regular readers, we’ve been so hunkered down with Big Omaha preparations that we haven’t dedicated time to keeping up with the many things going on around us. And there are many things. Here’s just a handful of stories…