Danya Issawi Is Putting It In Writing
The New York-based media maven has plans to expand her horizons, setting her sights on Snoopy, a few novels, and maybe even a quaint cottage.
By Tyler McCall
Photos by Marcus Maddox
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Danya Issawi learned her first hard lesson about journalism when she was in the second grade: Always fact-check before going to print. She wrote a regular newsletter for Mrs. Nelson’s class, and in one issue, she missed a few classmates who had won a mathletics competition.
“I had to go around the entire room and write the two names I had missed in pen,” she says. “My teacher said, ‘This is why it's important to get things right the first time,’ and I was like, ‘I'm eight, but slay, agreed.’”