January 24, 2013

Heritage.com
Before he became a rock star, Andrew Dost of the group fun. studied journalism at Central Michigan University. “I wasn’t even particularly interested in journalism until I took an intro class,” he tells Katherine Ranzenberger.

I loved the professor and I loved the challenges journalism brought, so I figured if I needed to study something as a backup plan, I might as well do something that fascinated me and had great professors.

Given the two career fields Dost focused on, we can probably all agree he may have been under-advised in high school — and that his band’s name probably drives copy editors crazy. Fun.’s record sales are doing well, and the band has been nominated for six Grammy awards.

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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