Production Night: Finley's Senior Goodbye

The Daily Aztec

On a very special episode of Production Night, assistant sports editor Andrew Finley joins social media and podcast editor Sara Rott to say goodbye to The Daily Aztec. Finley, who's graduating this year, reflects back on his time working at the Daily Aztec.

First, Finley and Rott reminisce about their early days at their community college newspaper The Summit. It was at that newspaper that they met for the first time. As well as both got their first taste of a newsroom.

In Finley’s two years of working for The Daily Aztec, he reflected back on his favorite articles he ever wrote. Two of them being sports articles, “Aztecs win five-hour slugfest in walk-off fashion” and “Column: Is Brigham Young football actually good?”. He also reflected on his latest article “Miles McPherson offers a ‘Third Option’,” written with managing editor Trinity Bland

Finley gave some advice to new staff writers and editors coming onto The Daily Aztec staff.

“Be a better leader than you are a worker,” he said. “When you're an editor you're in charge of a group of writers and a new wave of people, you can’t tell people what to do, you have to inspire them.”