About

TIFFANI N. GARLIC blogs about media, news, and society on Common Cents at sheilaj.wordpress.com. She is a proud 2007 Livingston College graduate of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and currently attends the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. She is particularly interested in issues of public health, access, social justice, and education.

Real Talk: The purpose of journalism is not to tell you what to think, but to tell you what to think about and then the rest is up to you. A professor once asked me why I was pursuing a Master’s degree in journalism when it seems as though print news is dying and all the topics are depressing. I said, “Because the more people know, the better equipped they will be to change all of that.”