<\/a>Dana Zigmund<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Moving to Juneau from the Midwest with her husband, who works for the state of Alaska, Zigmund’s previous experience as a reporter and as a public affairs officer for U.S. Bank have allowed her to come off the blocks with speed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
[Juneau to hold vaccine clinic for people 65 and up, health care workers<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “I started my career working at a newspaper. I had probably 5-6 years of newspaper work,” Zigmund said. “It’s a different perspective covering the news rather than generating it.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Hohenstatt said he’s impressed with how quickly Zigmund has readjusted to working in a (socially distanced) newsroom.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “She’s certainly hit the ground running in the short time she’s been here,” Hohenstatt said. “I couldn’t be happier with the addition of our newest reporter.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t When not working, Zigmund said, she enjoys walking, hiking, and Pucker Wilson’s.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Living in Juneau since late 2019, Zigmund said there’s a few subtle differences between the greater Chicago area and Alaska.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “The weather is more consistent here. You get a lot of ups and downs there,” Zigmund said. “Chicago gets much colder. And it’s a dry cold.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Zigmund said width and breadth of stories available are great. Her favorite so far was a timely one.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “The museum piece, about the COVID artifacts they’re collecting,” Zigmund said. “That was fun and interesting.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t The variety of things to write about in Juneau is fabulous, Zigmund said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “One thing I really like being back at the paper is the large variety of topics that come up,” Zigmund said. “Instead of banking, it could go from schools to a shot eagle to who knows what.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t • Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She’s a veteran of the news<\/a> and communications business<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":66674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66673"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}