About Ethan
Ethan Klapper
Ethan Klapper is a senior at American University in Washington, D.C., where he’s double majoring in journalism and political science.
Ethan’s path to journalism is an unlikely one — as late as high school, he hated writing. When he arrived in Washington in August 2007 to start his journey through college, he saw that The Eagle, AU’s student paper, was hiring an assistant Web editor. Ethan applied and was hired. Soon, he started writing for The Eagle and hasn’t looked back since. Later promoted to Web editor and managing editor for Web, he will soon enter his fourth year at the paper and will have the longest tenure of all current staffers.
In addition to Ethan’s work at The Eagle, he’s also landed internships at mediabistro.com, The Washington Post (2x), BNA and The Journal News, a daily broadsheet that circulates around 100,000 in suburban New York City.
Ethan has also provided technical assistance to ATV, AU’s student television station. Prior to starting college, Ethan interned twice and freelanced once for WRNN-TV, a market one independent television station in Rye Brook, N.Y.