More about me:

 

Hello, friends and potential employers! My name is Daylina (pronounced Day-Lee-NUH) and I'm a multimedia journalist and a product of a small-town chef and waitress who fell in love, had two kids, got divorced and spent the next 15 years awkwardly avoiding one another at momentous occasions like graduation.

 

I've lived in four states, traveled to almost all the others and spent a month traveling around Ireland studying media and history there. 

 

I started my career at 15 at my high school newspaper, The Chieftain, where my advisor had us do journalism case studies in between issues of the paper and insisted we considered ourselves professional journalists, not "student" journalists. 

 

In 10th grade, I joined the Tampa Tribune's first community columnist board, selected after sending in a spiky-haired headshot and column on how I taught Sunday School despite the kids thinking I was a vampire.

 

I've attended many Poynter Institute and Society of Professional Journalist conferences, seminars and workshops over the years and like to occasionally give back through presentations at local high schools and through the Florida Scholastic Press Association. 

 

Two journalism degrees, years of freelancing and staff positions later, I work as assistant news editor and regional reporter for the Marshall News Messenger and own a photography business, Daylina Miller Photography.

 

In my free time I enjoy planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse, cosplaying at local geek conventions, watching Doctor Who, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and writing for Dames & Dice, my tabletop gaming blog.