Working on The Hill News led Ed Forbes ‘02 into a journalism career. He credits his loss in the fall 2000 student government presidential election as the “best thing that happened in my co-curricular experience” because it “paved the way for my editorship of the paper…That role made my senior year absolutely spectacular.”

            Forbes, a double-combined major in English and history-Canadian studies, said that at SLU he learned not only writing and analytical skills, but also “the value of being engaged in a community and the diplomacy and volunteerism that such membership always demands.”

            In addition to student government and the student newspaper, Forbes was president of Omicron Delta Kappa in his senior year. “I cannot begin to measure how all of my experiences during my four years in Canton have made me a better journalist and, more importantly, a more engaged person,” he said.

After graduating from St. Lawrence, Forbes worked as a reporter for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake, and later became the editor of the weekly Lake Placid News. After marrying Emily Hunt ’04, he left to earn his master's degree at Columbia University's Journalism School.

            Forbes is now an editor at The Journal News, White Pllains, NY, where he edits stories, writes headlines and captions, designs front and inside pages, and ensures that the stories translate onto the newspaper’s Web site. 

            According to Forbes the newspaper industry is struggling, but he said he likes working in the industry because “it's exciting to be on the front lines of the battle for the future of American journalism. We may be able to survive in the new, wireless world and we may not. I like fighting the good fight.”