A 20-year-old student at Arizona State University broke news on September 29 that a key State Department official who was involved in talks between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian government h stepped down from his post. Andrew Howard, a managing editor of State Press student newspaper, reported Friday evening that Kurt D. Volker stepped down from his role as State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine. “I’m t sure any of us thought it would just be this big scoop,” Howard told Associated Press. “It’s just incredible.”

State Press competes with Arizona media outlets 

Usually, State Press competes with Arizona media outlets, he said. “It turned out we were competing with world,” Howard said. “I was never thinking we have to beat Times and AP and Washington Post.” Volker is executive director of McCain Institute, a think tank in Washington that is run by Arizona State University. Howard said he knew about Volker’s ties to McCain Institute and decided to see if he could get information about him from his work with university. “I just talked to editor in chief (of State Press) and said we should look into this because we thought it would be good to localize a big story,” he said Howard began looking into Volker and, by Friday evening, confirmed with an unnamed school official that Volker h resigned. He worked on story with editor in chief and ar managing editor. “We did hard work. We wanted to make sure our facts are right,” Howard said. When story went online about 6:15 p.m., Howard was working in newsroom of Arizona Republic, where he is an intern. Howard said he jokingly apologized to newsroom for story.“I briefly said out loud: ‘Sorry about that,’ “ he said. “y were incredibly nice about it. It was sort of a funny moment.”

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“Hell of a scoop”

Prominent Washington journalists praised State Press on Twitter. “Hell of a scoop,” wrote Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman. “I appreciate all media attention we’re getting,” Howard said. “It’s great for our paper. It’s awesome that we proved student journalists can do same reporting everyone else can.” Howard, who grew up in Phoenix, said his mor studied journalism in college and he worked for his high school newspaper.
“I grew up in a family that valued news and understood it,” he said. State Press is his main focus at Arizona State, said Howard, whose major is in journalism and mir is in political science. “I do spend a lot of time at State Press, probably too much time,” he said.

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