WSU grad joins Miner newsroom

NEWPORT – Gabrielle Feliciano, 21, has joined The Miner newspapers as a general assignment reporter. She started work last month.

Feliciano is a 2024 graduate from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, majoring in multimedia journalism. The Chicagoland native graduated summa cum laude in December. She interned at The Olympian newspaper last summer and freelanced for the Inlander and The Spokesman-Review newspapers in Spokane while attending university.

“I cannot believe how lucky we are to have Gabrielle join our team,” Miner publisher and co-owner Michelle Nedved said. “The Murrow College of Communication is considered one of the best programs in the country and Gabrielle is proving its reputation to be accurate.”

Feliciano was raised in the suburbs, in Skokie, Illinois.

“Pullman isn’t completely rural, but is far more rural than suburban Chicago,” she says. Newport is even more rural than Pullman, but Feliciano says she appreciates the strong sense of community here.

Her first taste of the community was attending Trivia Night at Kelly’s.

“It was fun and I hadn’t been to a local event yet here,” she says. “It gave me a peek into the community that I would be living and working in for the foreseeable future.”

Feliciano’s parents immigrated to the Chicago suburbs from near Cebu City in the Philippines.

In addition to general assignment reporting, Feliciano will be covering education issues.

For fun Feliciano enjoys thrift store shopping and reading comic books, especially manga, Japanese comic books. She also enjoys playing video games.