Kissinger started out being a journalist student at Depaw University, where she worked on the student newspaper for four years. Following college, Kissinger spent a brief amount of time working in upstate New York before relocating to the Milwaukee area, where she now works for the Journal Sentinel. Covering many beats, Kissinger slowly made her way into mental heath care beat, doing various stories for the beat until she was permanently covered it.

What makes Kissinger great at her beat is that she has personal experiences with those with mental illnesses, and has a vested interest to change what's going on in mental health care. Kissinger is a part of a large family, being one of eight. However, she has also seen the horrors of mental illness, as two of her brothers and sisters have committed suicide, while another suffers from schizophrenia. 

In her stories, Kissinger uses real experiences from her life and from others. Two of her stories were personal accounts of how her family coped with the deaths of her family members, which received warm responses from the public. Kissinger said in class that through her beat, if she was able to make one person's life better through her stories and through her actions on the beat.

Kissinger is a very congenial person who has a real passion not only for mental health care but for journalism in general. I'm very excited to see 

Especially in the time of print journalism, if you missed a story on any given day, you never got to see it again. It was what made daily newspapers essential for journalists. But with the dawn of the internet, everything is archived and easily accessed. But you have to know the subject of the article you missed.  So why not devote an entire section of the news site to giving readers the ability to search for stories that they never even heard of or couldn't know the subject of? That is the beauty of the section. 

Some people have had the same idea as the Times. For instance, St. Louis's KPNT radio station does the "Discount News" on their morning show. This is the same section, where they take news that happened a few days earlier and tell their listeners the stories. They're tagline is that "if you are hearing it for the first time, well then, it's news to you." 

Another section of the Times that I found interesting was the "Animals" section. The internet is a direct cause of this. If one were to go to a website such as Reddit or Imgur, they would quickly realize those who roam the internet love their animals. It provides entertainment to those who value their pets lives just as much as any other member of their family. 

While these sections might not exactly be "hard news", it gives the readers of the Times a different venue from the normal news site. "In Case You Missed It" gives the readers a chance to go back the past few days and figure out what they missed in the news. And "Animals" appeals to nearly every type of person to stumble upon their site. Overall, I like these two sections, and their placement in the middle of th the page is just right.