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. She was a reporter with The Kane County Chronicle, part of the Northwest Newsgroup. Her work has appeared in The St. Louis Beacon, an online-only publication, where she reported and live blogged on topics like the post-VP debate Sarah Palin rally and deranged stuffed animals. Flood is currently reporting on the civil courts system for The Madison-St. Clair Record, a legal journal in southern Illinois.
Early Life[edit]
Flood was born on Nov. 23, 1984 in St. Louis, Missouri. 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 second major in Art History. She spent the fall of her junior year in Denmark. Flood lived in Raub Hall, Simmonds Hall, a spare bed in Drew Hall, Sherwin Hall, Williston Hall, Hamblin Hall, the Publications Office, her car, study lounge couches, and the White House by the Quickie during her time at Knox. She may be the student who has lived in the most different places on campus during her four years at Knox. Tom Fucoloro once summed up Flood's experience at college say: "Amelia's college experience can be summed up in one question: Where am I living?"
Middle Age[edit]
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. Flood's preferred byline in the Courier was Grainne McScot. The name would later make an appearance as Flood's byline in the 2007 Flunk Day Issue of The Knox Student. Other pen names used by Flood included Sealbach Sassenach (the Turkey Bowl Courier) Zell Zoe Browncoat (Flunk Day issue 2007) and Princess Biliken (Flunk Day issue 2007).
Future Plans[edit]
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 covered 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. Flood has previously been to Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia and Canada. Flood would like to travel back to many of these places. Additionally, she would like to see Turkey, Croatia, Spain, Morocco and Madagascar before she dies.
On May 29, 2007, Flood accepted a position with The Kane County Chronicle, the sister paper of the the Northwest Herald, near Chicago. From 2007 to 2008 she was be the primary reporter for St. Charles, Ill., the largest town in the Chronicle's coverage area.
Flood left the Chronicle May 20, 2008. She returned to St. Louis to become a contributor to the St. Louis Beacon, a non-profit news site modeled on MinnPost.com and The Chi-Town Daily News. She contributed reporting to the site until April 2009.
Death and Resurrection[edit]
Amelia Flood died in 1979 in a car crash. She was later resurrected.
She remains in touch with former members of The Knox Student staff and misses them all the time. No newsroom rocks it more.
Rumors[edit]
Some rumors link Flood romantically to Ethyl Eichelberger.
Flood was rumored to "perfect," according to Jon Cahow, News Editor for The Knox Student. This was later proven to be untrue.
2006-2007 TKS Sports Editor Jesse Temple once threatened to cut off Flood's fingers if she edited his award-winning baseball alumni series without consulting him.
Temple also argued with Flood's mother over where to use a comma. Flood overruled Temple and her mother.
In October 2007, Flood was thrown out of her first meeting as a reporter. Flood was thrown out of Open Meetings Act training.
Links The Kane County Chronicle-- [[1]] The St. Louis Beacon -- [[2]] The Madison-St. Clair Record -- www.madisonrecord.com
