Hi, my name is Ruairí (pronounced ruhr-ree) Alfredo Arrieta-Kenna.
I'm a journalist at Politico Magazine, where I mostly work behind-the-scenes helping to produce the publication’s bi-monthly print magazine. I also occasionally write and edit things both for Politico and elsewhere. (See my contact page if you'd like to pitch me something you want to write for Politico Magazine or something you want me to write as a freelancer for somewhere else.)
Some background: I recently graduated from Stanford University (BA 2018), where I studied political science and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Prior to my senior year, I was a summer intern at Vox, where I mostly did reporting on energy and the environment. And prior to that, I spent some time my junior year reading sociology and public policy at Oxford University.
At Stanford, (as a student on full-tuition financial aid) I had multiple jobs throughout my four years—from working at a library to being a teaching assistant for an English professor—and each was an invaluable experience. But student journalism was my main activity. My sophomore year, I wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily; I created and co-hosted a podcast for the campus political magazine, Stanford Politics; and I was selected by a committee of John S. Knight Journalism Fellows to receive a scholarship award for “outstanding student journalism.” In the following years, I left the student newspaper to become a senior editor and eventually editor-in-chief of Stanford Politics, where I re-launched the print magazine with new graphic design and photography teams, created and wrote an email newsletter that grew to over 10,000 subscribers, and invested in developing the organization's reporting work. (The magazine’s first cover story under my editorial leadership would go on to be named by Longreads as one of the best pieces of local reporting of 2017.)
As a news assistant at Politico Magazine, I really enjoy and appreciate my job, as it is one of my long-term career goals to gain more and more experience with and responsibility for the management of a magazine, not to mention I get to work with an amazing and talented group of people.
I’m originally from Los Angeles but now based in Washington, D.C. You can (and should!) follow me on Twitter @ruairiak.
Some background: I recently graduated from Stanford University (BA 2018), where I studied political science and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Prior to my senior year, I was a summer intern at Vox, where I mostly did reporting on energy and the environment. And prior to that, I spent some time my junior year reading sociology and public policy at Oxford University.
At Stanford, (as a student on full-tuition financial aid) I had multiple jobs throughout my four years—from working at a library to being a teaching assistant for an English professor—and each was an invaluable experience. But student journalism was my main activity. My sophomore year, I wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily; I created and co-hosted a podcast for the campus political magazine, Stanford Politics; and I was selected by a committee of John S. Knight Journalism Fellows to receive a scholarship award for “outstanding student journalism.” In the following years, I left the student newspaper to become a senior editor and eventually editor-in-chief of Stanford Politics, where I re-launched the print magazine with new graphic design and photography teams, created and wrote an email newsletter that grew to over 10,000 subscribers, and invested in developing the organization's reporting work. (The magazine’s first cover story under my editorial leadership would go on to be named by Longreads as one of the best pieces of local reporting of 2017.)
As a news assistant at Politico Magazine, I really enjoy and appreciate my job, as it is one of my long-term career goals to gain more and more experience with and responsibility for the management of a magazine, not to mention I get to work with an amazing and talented group of people.
I’m originally from Los Angeles but now based in Washington, D.C. You can (and should!) follow me on Twitter @ruairiak.
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