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QuickTake:
Two new journalists are joining Lookout Eugene-Springfield: Lilly St. Angelo is covering education and children's issues, Annie Aguiar will cover arts and culture.
Lookout Eugene-Springfield is growing and it’s my favorite types of growth: more journalists.
Until now, Ken Doctor has gotten to make these announcements. I’m glad I get to do them now. As our membership quickly grows – sign up here if you haven’t yet – so does our newsroom team
Lilly St. Angelo joins Lookout as our education and children’s issues correspondent, focusing on school districts as well as organizations and topics impacting children in our community.
She graduated from Indiana University and was a Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star, along with multiple internships, including at the Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune and Daily Monitor in Uganda.
Lilly then spent time as the urban change reporter at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, where she wrote about issues including homelessness, housing, immigrant community challenges and equity.
Most recently, she taught English to elementary school students in Toulouse, France.
“Joining Lookout Eugene-Springfield is the most exciting opportunity I’ve had in my career. To be a part of building something from the ground up is a dream and to do it in such a cool community makes it even better,” Lilly said. “I am looking forward to getting to know the educators and families of Eugene and Springfield and covering the issues that matter most to them.”
But Lilly isn’t the only one joining Lookout. Later this month, Annie Aguiar comes to Eugene to be our arts and culture correspondent.
Annie, who also happens to be a graduate of Indiana University, is completing a culture reporting fellowship at the New York Times. Before that, she worked at the Poynter Institute and the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal.
And earlier, she served as an intern at the Washington Post and a freelance contributor to the Seattle Times.
Annie’s introduction to Eugene’s vibrant culture community was Eugene Ballet’s “The Toni’s” with Orchestra Next a few weeks ago.
That, combined with visiting the Saturday Market, might have been the perfect way for Annie to see how important the arts and culture community is to Eugene.
“I could not be more excited to come to the Willamette Valley to report on arts and culture. I am a strong believer in the power that local arts and culture have to bring neighbors together and reflect on the world they share,” Annie said. “It’s an honor to be trusted with reporting on the arts in a place like Lane County, and I cannot wait to dive in.”
As good as this news is, the best news is that we will still have more correspondents coming to Lookout.
These two come on the heels of Ann Marie Swan joining as our Opinion and Community Voices editor.
Have something to say? Send us a Letter to the Editor. Ann Marie has been busy reading submissions sent in by readers and looks forward to hearing what you have to say, and you can see the growing number of them here.
Thank you for your support of Lookout Eugene-Springfield. We are all excited to be part of this community and are grateful for the enthusiastic welcome we’ve received.
