 Hello, my name is Ron Smith. I'm the editor and project director of Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. I lead the best journalism team in the city and what we do is cover issues of importance to people who live in the central city of Milwaukee focusing primarily on Black and Latinx populations. Market University has a long history of being within a community and serving that community and here in the college we tell stories of communities, so a neighborhood news service and its focus on local news is a perfect fit. Our mission is really about celebration, education, and illumination. Celebration means we really do pay attention intentionally to the good people who are doing those extraordinary things in the community that you would never hear about. It's illumination and that means really that good old-fashioned watchdog reporting that no one else is doing. Education means we connect them to resources in Milwaukee that can help them leave and live their lives. Myself. To know Ron is to love him. He is Ron Shine and he has been shining since his days as a student at Marquette and then he got his start at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and eventually he rose to work for the USA Today and we were very excited that he brought that energy back to us to make sure Neighborhood News Service can thrive. I wanted to be able to make a difference in community and also focus on local journalism which is dying in some areas. Not only do we do real journalism but we're training tomorrow's journalists today and we're particularly training journalists of color and even those who are not to go into communities and to be able to talk to people who don't look like that. We don't just want a story. We want to uplift. We want to inform. We want to empower. We want to entertain. But most of all we really want to serve and I think that's what makes us different. We're not trying to make a profit. We're just trying to use our labor for the greater good.