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Colleen Newvine Tebeau grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, a blue-collar General Motors town about an hour and a half north of Detroit.

She took newspaper class in high school and it changed her life. She majored in journalism at Central Michigan University, where she worked on the college newspaper for all four years. In fact, she got her first assignment at CM LIFE before she’d been to her first class. She worked as a reporter and editor at daily, weekly and monthly publications before she got a little restless.

She started her MBA in Michigan’s part-time program and took a marketing job at a technology consulting firm to learn more about the Internet. The tech market tanked, and she moved into public relations at Michigan, learning about press release distribution, media pitching and media training by day, and market research, corporate strategy and leadership at night.

After graduation, Newvine combined her journalism experience and her business education by going to work for a major news organization. Today she is head of market research, applying her new-found love of data with her understanding of industry trends and company needs.

She continues to write freelance feature articles to scratch the writing itch.