About Me
Hi! My name is Marley Bassett and I am a senior at the University of South Carolina. I am majoring in mass communication with a minor in political science. Currently, I am one of the news editors for The Daily Gamecock and a reporter for The Arena I am also a freelance writer for The Lexington County Chronicle and an intern for Watershed Consulting Group. Previously, I was the marketing intern for Charleston County Parks and Recreation and the editor in chief of The Johnsonian at Winthrop University. My love for politics is what inspired me to go into mass communication so I could explain and inform the public about everything going on with the local, state, national and occasionally international political systems.
Awards
SCPA 2022; 1st in General Excellence: The Johnsonian Staff, Assistant News Editor
SCPA 2023; 3rd in General Excellence: The Johnsonian Staff, Editor-in-Chief
2022-23 Best Opinion Piece Winthrop University: The Johnsonian, "When is it enough? A journalist's opinion on reporting in 2022"
SCPA 2024: First in Small Division Page One Design: "Best of 2022-2023" issue
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph, and the signs of horror are still in the air."
Henry Anatole Grunwald