Kate Ray, an NYU Local City writer studying abroad in China for the semester, has been blogging for Shanghaiist, the Chinese outlet of Gothamist. Ray has been a long-time long-form print devotee, landing herself in Mercer Street freshman year. At Local, Ray aggregated city news and spun it with a voice that mixed the professional and the personal, sometimes eschewing the common short, sharp ‘blog voice.’ After a very vulnerable, drunken reading of his favorite blog posts at Sound Fix, Kate told one Local writer (ahem): “You’re a good writer, but this blog voice… it isn’t doing anything for you.” But Ray has come around on the Internet since beginning an internship at the popular far East blog.

“Shanghaiist is awesome,” she said. “The writing style is similar to snarky NYU Local, but they’re so unfamiliar with it [in China] that I can pass for being pretty good at it.”

You can check out Ray’s recent posts here.

[Ray is the first in our 'NYU Local's Where Are They Now?' series, which will update people who care (likely just other Local writers and their immediate friends) on the lives of former NYU Local writers.]