Jake Cox, the Digital Managing Editor, walks through the music that held his hand through being a journalist over the last four years.
Jake Cox, Digital Managing Editor
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October 13, 2025
As I write this, my time at The DePaulia is barreling toward its conclusion. This newsroom and these 16 pages, once 28, have defined my experience at DePaul. I’m deeply grateful to be leaving on my own terms and still able to say that this has been the most influential part of my college years. I can say now, and hope to still say years from now, that I would not be the journalist, or hell, the person I am today without three and a half very long years at the paper.
I’ve met my closest friends through reporting, writing, designing hundreds of pages and simply bearing the weight of the news. I am forever indebted to these relationships and to the incredible amount of skill I’ve gained since my first story with the support of DePaul’s journalism program and my very best friends. But on to the jams. I dedicate each of these to one year spent in the dingy basement of 1 E. Jackson Blvd.
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