How to Build and Use a Professional Network - Yoav Gonen

In Chapter 6 of 11 in his 2011 interview, education reporter Yoav Gonen answers "How Do You Use Your Network to Get Help Making Career and Life Decisions?"  Gonen notes the challenges he has had finding people ahead of him in career to emulate and contact.  As his career develops, he better understands the importance of identifying people reporting on education and sets out to better do this in coming months.  Yoav Gonen is the education reporter for the New York Post newspaper in New York City.  He earned a Masters of Journalism degree from New York University and a BA in English from the University of Michigan.