Amelia Flood

Amelia Flood, '07, was the Copy Editor for 2006-2007 on The Knox Student. Flood was also a reporter for The Register-Mail, Galesburg's 15,000 circulation daily paper from December 2006 through May 2007. Flood was born on Nov. 23, 1984 in St. Louis, Mo. After attending Notre Dame High School, Flood enrolled at Knox in 2003 as an international relations major. During her sophomore year, she was awarded a Ford Fellowship and the Theodore Yelich Research award and took on a double major in Art History. She spent the fall of her junior year in Denmark. After returning to the U.S., Flood continued to write for The Knox Student and became Copy Editor in May 2006. Flood was one of the staff responsible for the Monmouth Courier prank of 2006. This prank, perpetrated by the staff of The Knox Student, involved the production of a fake version of Monmouth College's newspaper. It mocked all things Scottish and was distributed on both the Knox College and Monmouth College campuses. During October 2006, Flood made the decision to pursue a career in journalism and obtained an internship at The Register-Mail. She was hired to cover the Monmouth, Ill. bureau in March 2006. As a reporter, she covers local government, events, and feature stories. Flood reads like there is no tomorrow and is "digging up the dead people," in Knox College's archives often. She routinely startles people with odd statements or zoned out looks. She enjoys movies and once lost feeling in her right thumb covering a story.