Sammy and Alex’s article, “Being poor on rich U-M campus still a struggle as school broadens reach,” was published in August 2019 by Bridge Michigan.

Sammy reports: “I took the course because I had a fair amount of student reporting experience but little exposure to the professional side of the reporting work. I wanted to work with a professional journalist to craft a piece of reporting within the constraints of professional reporting. I learned so much from Ron French during the semester that I took the course, particularly regarding all the planning that goes into the pre-writing and pre-reporting process. I now do a fair amount of work as a freelance investigative reporter—this is almost entirely thanks to Ron and everything he taught me about how the professional world works.”

Sammy is currently the investigative editor of Focal Point, the Michigan Daily‘s investigative reporting team. He interned for the Investigative Reporting Workshop in the summer of 2021. Outside investigative reporting, Sammy is writing a book about the secret double-life of his great-grandfather, an Austrian Jewish academic who spent 1936-1938 reporting under a non-Jewish pen name for a Belgian newspaper about the rise of Nazism in Austria. Excepts from Sammy’s book have appeared the Daily and the Detroit Jewish News.