Anderson Haigler is an award-winning journalist and 2020 graduate of the University of San Diego. He’s written for the San Diego Union-Tribune, and spent three years at his student paper, The USD Vista, where his sports and news reporting was recognized for awards four times by the California College Media Association and San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. 

Currently, he’s a Communications Assistant at USD Athletics where he covers a variety of college sports for the University of San Diego. 

In this episode, Anderson breaks down what its like graduating and freelancing during a pandemic, and having first first freelance piece, "Senior Moments Denied," get published at the beginning of COVID-19 in a newspaper he grew up reading as a child.  We also discuss how serving as an arts and culture editor at his student paper helped him become a better all-around journalist, the differences between Communications/PR writing vs. Journalism, and his hometown San Diego Padres baseball club. 

You can follow Anderson on Twitter at @ahaigler5