About Us

David Hood is a newspaper and print design enthusiast. He is proud to be the co-winner of the National Scholastic Press Association’s 2008 Design of the Year Award for Newspaper Design for his high school newspaper, Crimson, in Paso Robles, Calif. After serving the Daily Titan as a Layout Editor, he traveled to Washington, D.C. to the Washington Journalism Center where he interned as a business reporter at The Washington Times and garnered 20 bylines, four on its front page. He hopes to rekindle people’s interest in news for better public discourse and understanding.

Ian Wheeler is a print journalism major dedicated to news and providing important information to the public. As a journalist, he specializes in living life on the edge (like a rogue cop with nothing to lose) and not getting enough sleep. He enjoys covering breaking news, crime, business and politics, and hopes to eventually become a business reporter.

Nereida is currently a junior at CSUF. She is majoring in Print Journalism and minoring in American Studies. Serving as a Layout Editor in the Fall, Nereida is returning this semester as a News Editor. She wishes to become a media and culture writer, following in the footsteps of her idols David Carr and Rob Sheffield. One day she will work at Rolling Stone, be it in the mail room, or as a janitor… but hopefully as a contributing editor. In her spare time, she obsesses over the Beatles (George Harrison, in particular), which frequently appear in her writing.

Erinn Grotefend is graduating from Cal State University Fullerton this spring. Serving as Detour Editor during the fall 2012, Erinn is ready to take on the position of News Editor this semester. She is majoring in Communications with an emphasis in Print Journalism and a minor in Radio, Television and Film. Erinn started her journalism career at Mount San Antonio College where she was News Editor for The Mountaineer. After graduating from CSUF, she plans to write for newspapers and magazines as well as go into television production. Her ultimate goal is to work for E! Entertainment.

Outside of being a rockstar, Justin Enriquez did not know what he wanted to do with his life until journalism came along. It was when he found journalism did he realize his true passion in life. Now years later, he finds himself just months away from graduation and is primed and ready to stake his claim on the sports journalism field. Enriquez has served an entire school-year term as Sports Editor in Mt. San Antonio College’s newspaper The Mountaineer and is currently serving his second semester as the Daily Titan Sports Editor. His interests include basketball, mixed martial arts, music, and clothing. His dream job is to work for ESPN, but is always willing to explore other options as he has always been proud of how he can adapt to writing for any other section of the newspaper.

Angel is a senior journalism major with an emphasis on print. This is his second semester working on the Daily Titan. Last semester he was a sports assistant and now comes back as sports editor. Mendoza enjoys watching most sports but basketball is his passion. When the Lakers lose, it’s a bad day. His dream job is to work for the Los Angeles Times or Sports Illustrated.

Ricardo Gonzalez is a print journalism major in his final semester at CSUF. He is both proud and extremely humbled to be working as the Daily Titan’s Opinion Editor this semester. He loves to write, hopes to get payed to do so someday, but oftentimes finds himself far too distracted by his Internet obsession to get as much work done as he’d like. Besides (failing to find time for) writing, his great loves include video games, film and professional wrestling. To him, all are art forms.

Yvette Quintero is a sophomore studying print journalism and radio-TV-film. She reprises her role of features editor during her fourth semester at the Daily Titan. In this position, she hopes to publish riveting human interest stories that emphasize the student voice of Cal State Fullerton. Upon graduating, Yvette wants to enroll in a graduate program at Columbia or NYU. If that doesn’t work out, she will still make the move east to the Big Apple and live a fast-paced life, writing up a storm a la Carrie Bradshaw with not as many questions.

Sima Sarraf is a journalism major in her senior year at CSUF. After serving as assistant editor for the Detour section in the Fall of 2012, she is thrilled to return as editor of the section. She will be traveling to Vietnam for two weeks this Spring with a medical mission, which she will report on while shadowing doctors and nurses. With a passion for live music and writing, she hopes to one day grace the pages of Rolling Stone magazine beside her writing heroes Matt Taibbi, David Fricke and Peter Travers among many others.

Robert is the first name of a beast that likes trotting in snow-like conditions in the winter. Apart from being a photographer getting in the way of SWAT members, he enjoys bench pressing kittens and dry cleaning his mittens.

Rae is a photo communications major in her final semester at CSUF. This will be her second semester at the Daily Titan. Originally from San Francisco, she moved to Orange County in 2009 and earned an associate degree in digital media from Irvine Valley College. After graduation, she plans to do a lot of traveling and work as a creative production artist or do editorial work for media companies or magazines. Her hobbies include swimming, tennis, badminton, going out, eating and keeping her fellow editor out of trouble.

Tim is a senior journalism major at Cal State Fullerton and is serving his second semester as copy editor for the Daily Titan. He plans on becoming a reporter and copy editor after graduating in May. In his free time, he enjoys reading.

Peter is a print journalism major at Cal State Fullerton in his final semester. He is one of the three fine Copy Editors of the Daily Titan. Before CSUF, Peter was the College Life Editor on the Mt. San Antonio College newspaper: The Mountaineer. On his spare time, he blogs about food, draws cartoons and reads comic books. His love for pizza is rivaled by his love for breakfast foods.

When Chris isn’t dedicating his life to providing important news to the good students of Cal State Fullerton, you can find him on a basketball court or behind a piano at a fine bar. He graduates this summer with a degree in communications.

Julie is a sophomore at Cal State Fullerton as well as Hope International University, majoring in graphic design. This is her first semester at the Daily Titan as a Layout Editor.

Blanca is a College of the Arts undergraduate concentrating in graphic design. This is her fourth semester as a titan, and her second semester with the Daily Titan. As a layout editor, she hopes to compliment the content and images of the paper with design and type elements. After graduation, she aspires to become an art director for an advertising agency like 72 and Sunny or a print publication that empowers women like Cosmopolitan. Aside from long walks on the beach, Blanca also enjoys watching movies while cuddling, web-designing, and simply sharing laughs with friends and family.

David is a computer science major at Cal State Fullerton. This is his third semester working for the Daily Titan. After graduating from school sometime in the next century, he plans on working in the video game industry. His interests include science, history, art and video games.

Ethan doesn’t only enjoy his second semester as the Daily Titan Web Editor, he also finds pleasure in working with the great staff at the Daily Titan as well as writing and editing articles for them. After already spending two semester at Cal State Fullerton, the Journalism student has also found a way to make time for more fun activities. For example, playing video games way past his bedtime, spending time and learning facts from the internet, trying out new and exciting food and of course spending time with friends and family.

Ashley is a journalism major with an emphasis in broadcast. She is in her final semester at CSUF, but this will be her first semester with the Daily Titan. She is excited to be working as the Daily Titan’s Multimedia Editor. She planned on pursuing a career as a sports reporter, but discovered that she enjoyed the production aspect of broadcast. She is a sports enthusiast and would love to put her skills to work as a producer for a sports news program.