Belleville & Ypsilanti: Inside the Newsroom

Here you can find the musings of writers and editors of the Ypsilanti Courier and the Belleville View.


Thursday, August 23, 2012

New editor at the Courier

We've had a lot of staffing changes over this past summer at Heritage Media, but I'm happy to tell you all that I'm taking over as editor at The Ypsilanti Courier and Manchester Enterprise.

I'm Krista Gjestland, and I've been at Heritage since November as a general assignment and government reporter. Prior to that, I freelanced for Heritage for about nine months. I graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 2011, where I earned a degree in journalism and worked at The Eastern Echo.

I live in Ypsilanti and am incredibly excited to help the city get the coverage it needs and deserves. I welcome any suggestions on how to move our coverage forward. As an Ypsilanti citizen I know what I'd like to see covered more, but I'd like to hear from you all as well. What issues in Ypsi are most important to you?

I'm always looking for more community contributors, bloggers and freelancers so please reach out to me if you're interested.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to email me at kgjestland@heritage.com, find me on Twitter @kgjestland or give me a call at 734-429-7380 ex. 18.

I'm also regularly stationed in our Community Media Lab, located at 215 W. Michigan Ave. in downtown Ypsi. I'm there every Monday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. so stop in and say hi.

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