Dena Levitz is the manager of digital strategies for the Newspaper Association of America while also pursuing a master's in Media Entrepreneurship at American University. This is an introduction to a regular column she'll be writing about what it's like inside one of the nation's new entrepreneurial journalism programs. Dena has freelanced for publications like the Washington Post and The Atlantic's Cities website, been a news writer for the Washington Examiner and the Augusta Chronicle, and worked as a weekend White House stringer for Bloomberg News. In her spare time she enjoys drinking a hoppy beer, chomping on a cheeseburger or quoting from one of the Rocky movies.