Winegarner Named Multimedia Editor for The Daily Toreador
Brett Winegarner, a 2009 Spearman High School graduate, is the new Multimedia Editor for The Daily Toreador, the student newspaper of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
During Red Raider Freshman Orientation, Brett visited the student media booth and took an application, filled it out and submitted it along with his resume. A few weeks before school began, he received an e-mail that asked him if he would ike to go in and see if he could produce good stories. He did well, so he was hired.
His first semester at Tech, he didn’t cover very many stories, and most of them were news stories. He covered the Red Raider and Lady Raider Basketball games later in the semester, and became more infolved in The Daily Toreador.
During the spring semester he covered all sports, and even served as a fill-in editor one week when his boss was in London for an internship.
As Multimedia Editor, he is in charge of sending people out to cover events and sporting events, as well as the Daily Toreador website. and also covers the football games. (Brett’s video coverage clips are available at www.spearmanreporter.com/collegenews)
Brett plans to work at the Daily Toreador until he graduates. After graduation he plans to get a job with a TV station in a major sports market, and hopes to work his way up to a large sports television company like Fox Sports or ESPN. His ultimate goal is to be the everyday play-by-play announcer for a Major League Baseball team.
Brett is the son of Brenda and Verlan Winegarner of Spearman.
The Texas Tech newspaper started in 1925 after the founding of Texas Technological College in 1923. It was originally called The Toreador to reflect the Spanish Renaissance architectural of the campus's buildings. In 1965, the name changed to The University Daily and then changed again to its current name The Daily Toreador in 2005.
The publication is available in print, e-mail, and web formats (www.dailytoreador.com).
Although two faculty advisers watch over the operations of the newspaper, the day-to-day decisions for the newspaper rest on the student staff. The advisers choose not to restrict the content that is placed in the paper, but instead make suggestions and give advice to the editorial board.
The newspaper prints Monday-Friday, and has around 2,000 to 5,000 unique visitors per day to its Web site, continually making it one of the top-25 read college newspapers in the nation.
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