A second-year digital marketing student became the editor-in-chief of AACC’s newspaper in August.

Amanda Lewis, a former music store manager, replaced Jose Gonzalez, who graduated in May after serving for one year as editor of Campus Current.

“My plan is to get our team up and running,” Lewis, who earned a bachelor’s degree in arts management from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, in 2016, said. “I want to see where we’re at first, and then if there’s anything that we can do to improve it. I think starting off with, like, a strong team is good, and then seeing what everybody’s strengths are, because we have a couple of different folks that can do a couple of different things.”

Campus Current, the college’s award-winning student newspaper, publishes a print edition each month and a weekly e-mail newsletter. In addition, the staff updates the digital edition frequently each week.

Lewis, who spent semesters in Prague and Rome, described herself as “an overachiever, I think, competitive, but I’m very determined to get things done, and get it done correctly, quickly, and learn along the way.”

Lewis said she plans to keep the editor-in-chief position for at least a year.

“If you take all the staff into consideration, we have some people who are, you know, in their 30s, some people who are 19, some people who are photographers, some people who are writers,” professor Sharon O’Malley, the newspaper’s faculty adviser, said. “Amanda has a really well-rounded background, and she can bring a lot of that perspective into making the newspaper excellent.”