Jessie Campisi

Jessica Campisi is a senior multiplatform journalism major and public leadership minor at the University of Maryland. After interning for McClatchy’s Washington bureau in the fall of 2016, she returned to the newsroom again this summer, spending most of her days at the U.S. Capitol chasing down lawmakers and covering political news. She spent the summer of 2016 as the investigative intern at USA TODAY, assisting with reporting and researching for a project that was named a 2017 Pulitzer investigative reporting finalist. In the spring of 2016, she worked at the Capital News Service in Annapolis covering state politics, and she spent a week in Cleveland that summer covering the Republican National Convention.She has worked at The Diamondback, the University of Maryland’s independent student newspaper, since her freshman year, covering Dining Services, crime, the College Park City Council and administrative affairs. As a sophomore, she became an assistant news editor at the paper, and this year, she will serve as news editor, managing a staff of more than 15 reporters and overseeing coverage of campus, local and state news.