Meet the Class of 2025

Jared Mitovich

Hometown: Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Majors: Communication (concentration in Data & Network Science) and Political Science

Activities & Honors:

  • Editor-in-Chief – The Daily Pennsylvanian
  • Reporter of the Year – Daily Pennsylvanian (2022)
  • Investigative Journalism Prize Winner – Daily Pennsylvanian (2023)
  • Newspaper Pacemaker Award Winner– Associated College Press (2024)
  • RealArts@Penn Road to Journalism & Publishing Series
  • Data-Driven Storytelling Fellow – Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies
  • Business Developer – Penn Labs
  • 3-Year Dean’s List

Hobbies: Reading the news, political Twitter, pop music, hiking, traveling, geography, watching sunsets
Favorite  Books: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Favorite Movies:
Encanto, Spotlight, The Martian
Favorite Food:
Chicken and waffles, Saxbys Daily Grind
Favorite Quote: “The story you often get is not the story you were chasing but it ends up being even better.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

Plans After Penn: Working in the journalism and media industry