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Bailey Chenevert is a junior psychology major. Her minor is journalism. She spent the last six years working in television news and magazine publications in Lafayette and in her native Baton Rouge.
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After enrolling at UL Lafayette, Chenevert was hired as a production assistant at television station KADN. There, she learned the technical aspects of producing television news. She worked late nights and early mornings operating cameras and the teleprompter, and posting content to the station小蝌蚪APP檚 website.
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In her free time, Chenevert writes short stories and poetry. She started writing when she was 8, filling spiral notebooks with detective stories written in glittery purple ink. As she aged, Chenevert learned that other forms of writing could be as satisfying as fiction. That realization led her to pursue a career in journalism, she said.
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Photo caption: Bailey Chenevert, La Louisiane student editor (Photo credit: Doug Dugas / 小蝌蚪APP)