Arionne Nettles

Arionne Nettles is a culture reporter and a lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Before joining Medill, Nettles worked as a digital producer at Chicago’s NPR station, WBEZ, where she ran the daily digital desk and a multiplatform editor at The Associated Press where she edited stories for AP’s 14-state central region, breaking news online and on social platforms. She also worked as digital managing editor of the Chicago Defender, one of the nation’s oldest black newspapers. Nettles obtained a bachelor’s degree and master of business administration degree from Florida A&M University and a master of science in journalism degree from Medill.