February 2012
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Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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The Invitation (a poem) →
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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The City Groove (a poem) →
No matter the style, practicing writing keeps the words fresh, the mind from wandering. There’s poetry in journalism even if we let it be.
Jan 29th
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Just Talk (a poem) →
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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The Starting Line →
First poem I’ve written in about two years. Just a brief return to an old hobby. 
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Video: Violinist plays along with cell phone... →
Aggregated story on what happened.
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“It proves, number one, that you are a bunch of tenacious mother fuckers,...”
– New York Times media reporter David Carr in documentary “Page One.” Said while he speaks to a Minnesota Magazine and Publishing Association. He refers to the journalists left standing after the “worst cyclical recession” that the “publishing industry has seen in modern...
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Jan 21st
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The enemy is here, and it is snow →
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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A heaping of praise and why it matters →
A reporter shares moment of accomplishment with students, and what it says about their school. 
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Review of Rick Bragg's 'Somebody Told Me' →
Jan 19th
“Life was immeasurably better once I forced myself to stop taking it seriously.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via halifornia)
Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
“I’ll let myself sleep soon, and hope to hell the world doesn’t seem so goddamn...”
– Spider Jerusalem (Warren Ellis)
Jan 15th
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Social media tips for journalists →
List of tutorials on how journalists can use latest social media trends.
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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fact 18
kaolee: about is that, I like reading newspapers. They’re interesting. I’d take a newspaper over a book ANY day!
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“People want a voice, and writing (and other media such as #podcasts and #YouTube...”
– “The new way Twitter will dominate online journalism” - The Street
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WatchWatch
“Forget the pledge. What good is a pledge? There’s none of us left. Magicians like you are a dying breed because of places like Karey’s Carnival and their cheap phony shows. … Every town, it just gets worse. Use your magic to your advantage.” From “LXD: The League of Extraordinary Dancers” Take out “magicians.” Put in “journalists.” You get the...
Jan 14th
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Journalism's hope? Woo the public, and learn the...
We dig our words like there’s no tomorrow, but pound the same message like a manic chain gang. We’re afraid to dance a little, to make our words so addictive that people are sniffing up our phrases like a river of crack. Is it personality we’re afraid of? Or is it coming to the realization that we actually don’t have much new to say? We can’t explain what it’s...
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“Audiences expect to see news at Internet speed, and have no patience for...”
– Nieman Journalism Lab, quoting Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify.
Jan 14th
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“In this new world, listening to the public is as important as telling the story.”
– Social media reshapes journalism
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Jan 13th
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“Now, reporters truth vigilantes are going to fight for the truth. It’s not...”
– Should journalists be truth vigilantes? Hell, yeah! OJR: The Online Journalism Review
Jan 13th
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“Reporter is such a passive term. Weak. Wimpy. Vigilante? Now, that’s a...”
– Should journalists be truth vigilantes? Hell, yeah! OJR: The Online Journalism Review
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Van Halen Debuts New Song 'Tattoo' →
Jan 13th