My name is Parker Hurley and I am a senior at Texas A&M University majoring in journalism and minoring in both communication and sport management. I love to write and have successfully completed several journalism-focused internships over the course of my college career. 

In January 2022, I worked as an intern for a local magazine called Maroon Weekly in College Station, Texas. Here, I connected what I had learned in the classroom so far to a hands-on position; I strengthened my writing, communication and collaboration skills immensely. I had over 10 articles published by the end of the internship in May 2022.

From August to November 2022, I had five articles published in The Battalion, Texas A&M's school newspaper. A journalism course I took this particular semester, Reporting Sports, gave me the opportunity to choose the Texas A&M men's golf team as my beat. By the end of the course, I had crafted two advances, two recaps and a profile on the men's golf team for The Battalion. 

My latest journalistic endeavor was a study abroad program that took me across the globe to Florence, Italy. I worked as an intern at Magenta Publishing from January to April 2023. I had 25 articles published at the publication – which included both Magenta Florence and Tuscan Trends – by the time my internship had concluded and can confidently say I sharpened my interviewing, field-reporting, researching and copy-editing skills during my time there. Most importantly, however, I learned how to navigate being a journalist in a foreign country.

This semester, fall 2023, will be my second to last semester as an undergraduate student at Texas A&M. I am currently enrolled in two writing-intensive journalism courses; I wrote an article for and was the managing editor of a special edition package in The Battalion and am currently the editor in chief for the January 2024 issue of Insite Magazine, a local publication in Bryan College Station. By the end of the semester, I will have developed new skills from my leadership positions in the newsroom and will have completed my senior capstone project – a longform magazine piece about college-aged musical talents in College Station. 

I can't wait to see what this career path has in store for me in the future and I am incredibly grateful for each of the experiences I have had the opportunity to partake in so far.

Martin Luther