Barnard College puts out a great fashion mag called Hoot, and you might recognize the name of one of the contributors to their latest issue: It’s Cathy Horyn. The Times critic is a Barnard alum and she wrote a thoughtful piece for Hoot about how she got where she is today, and shared her advice to future fashion writers. She also has a very specific idea for the kind of blog you should start.

Horyn says she always knew she wanted to be a newspaper reporter but “in the post-Watergate era, many young people had the same idea,” so she went to J-school at Medill at Northwestern and started work as a copygirl at the Chicago bureau of the AP on the weekends. After graduating, Horyn applied to 75 newspapers and “received two positive replies,” one of which was from The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. She took the job and covered the school board. Doesn’t sound like the path to a career in fashion journalism, right? Well, that’s kind of Horyn’s point:

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Barnard Chuo unaweka nje mtindo kubwa mag kuitwa Hoot , na unaweza kutambua jina la mmoja wa wachangiaji katika suala yao ya karibuni: Ni Cathy Horyn . Critic Times ni alum Barnard na aliandika kipande kuelimishana kwa Hoot kuhusu jinsi yeye got ambapo yeye ni leo, na ushauri wake pamoja na waandishi baadaye mtindo. Yeye pia ana wazo maalum sana kwa aina ya blogu unapaswa kuanza.

Horyn anasema siku zote alijua alitaka kuwa mwandishi wa gazeti lakini "katika zama za baada ya Watergate, vijana wengi walikuwa na wazo hilo," hivyo yeye akaenda J-shule katika Medill katika Northwestern na kuanza kazi kama copygirl, Chicago ofisi ya AP mwishoni mwa wiki. Baada ya kufuzu, Horyn kutumika kwa magazeti 75 na "kupokea majibu chanya mbili," mmoja wa lililokuwako tangu Pilot Virginian-katika Norfolk. Yeye alichukua kazi na kufunikwa bodi ya shule. Haina sauti kama njia ya kazi katika uandishi wa habari fashion, haki? Naam, hiyo ni aina ya uhakika Horyn ya:

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