Make it work…

31Jul08

The annual flood of students returning to campus is drawing ever nearer, and so I’ve really been thinking about the nuts and bolts of this fall’s Pleiad.
It’s going to be interesting.
I knew when I was hired as Editor-in-Chief that the News Editor and Features Editor positions were unfilled. Now I’ve come to discover that the Business Manager [...]

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Tags: Journalism, School, The Pleiad

Blog? What’s that?

29Jul08

Family dinner is pretty much a given in my house. If you are living at home, you had better have a good reason to miss the evening meal–otherwise you run the risk of a very upset parental force coming at you. And while we all gather ’round the dining room table, it’s typical to share [...]

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Tags: blogging, family, musings

Unabashed self-promotion

28Jul08

After several weeks of combing through journo blogs and journalists’ personal sites, I noticed a trend. The writers’ names are everywhere.
So, of course, I decided to mimic them.
You can now find me at Wired Journalists, UWire and Twitter, in addition to facebook and here.
There is a lot to be said for name recognition. And there is nothing [...]

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Tags: networking, online journalism

No news or bad news?

27Jul08

Politicians can live or die by media coverage. Richard Benedetto, one of my journalism professors and former USA Today reporter, said that the media in essence conduct the “first primary” in any election, as they decide who is worth coverage–which in turn can have a serious impact on who people will vote for. After all, not many people will vote for someone [...]

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Tags: George W. Bush, Joe Repya, John McCain, media coverage, Politico, Politics, The Election

Would you care?

24Jul08

I could not believe what I was reading. A friend of mine sent me a link to “Bridging the Abyss: Why a lot of newspapers aren’t going to survive” earlier, and in it was a lot of the same stuff that I’ve known to be true for a while–like the fact that journalism is moving to the [...]

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Tags: Journalism, musings, online journalism

I’m from the country…

16Jul08

And I like it that way. Most of the time.
I really appreciate that I grew up in one of those small towns where everyone knows everyone (and their business). I’ve lived on a dirt road my entire life, and my hometown doesn’t even have a stoplight. My family farms, so I learned from an early [...]

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Tags: farm life, Work

Elephant economics

08Jul08

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain released “Jobs for America: The McCain Economic Plan” today. It’s a 15 page document detailing how he is going to solve all the nation’s economic problems. And in one term in office, no less.
No, that’s not just me being sarcastic. Here’s a quote from McCain himself at a town hall meeting [...]

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Tags: economy, John McCain, Politics

Oh, Detroit…

03Jul08

Well, they’ve done it again.
Politicians in Detroit have once again made sure that the city is seen as a den of scandal. And this time, it wasn’t even Kwame’s fault.
As pretty much everyone knows, the Mayor is embroiled in a text-message scandal with former aid Christine Beatty, and is now facing various felony charges, including purjury. It’s [...]

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Tags: Detroit, Detroit City Council, Kwame Kilpatrick, musings, Politics

Changing times

02Jul08

I have a friend who is currently interning at The Tampa Tribune, and she recently blogged about the restructuring taking place there. They are making some big (and kinda exciting) changes.
However, with that restructuring comes more layoffs… and layoffs seem to be an inevitable epidemic in the field of journalism right now. Which is understandable, given that [...]

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Tags: Journalism, musings, webwork