On Tuesday, we lost a colleague and an accomplished journalist when Jonathan Maslow died.
Plenty of others have already shared their memories and their sadness much better than I can. All I’ll say is that his humor and his passion for life and the newsman’s craft will be sorely missed in this newsroom. And those traits […]
I’ve been putting off posting here for weeks, hoping inspiration would strike, or I would suddenly find a bounty of free time to think of something really insightful.
None of this happened, so I’ll drop a few tidbits of news and links to some friends, and hope I can get things rolling here again shortly.
First, I’m no […]
I’ve been out of the daily reporting loop for months now as I fill in as an editor, but I have been involved in one cool project. One of my reporters is now in the Dominican Republic reporting a project on the destruction caused earlier in the month by Hurricane Noel. While she’s there (without […]
One of my grammatical pet peeves is the abuse of quotation marks. I see it often in my daily life, but as I’ve been editing lately, I’ve noticed it popping up more and more in the stories I coach. A lot of young reporters think that quoting just one word an official says lends […]
