Journalism | Journalism
May.05.2011
Once, in the olden days, I launched a real estate career to support my addiction to newspaper writing. Had a ball, made a bundle. (It was a time of The-Sky-Is-Falling white flight in my southern town, and I hit #1 for Century/21 in the Southeast -- not for handling the BigDeal estates but for...
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Apr.15.2011
One of the many maxims we learn in journalism is to not just report a story, but to get at what the story is really about. The difference between the two perspectives is the difference between a cloud and solid ground. The principle applies to all nonfiction (see The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for...
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Apr.07.2011
Welcome to April 2011's "Upheavals" issue.
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Gentle greetings to all our fellow sojourners...
In a season of tough shifts, we're making some changes at the site to provide a new perspective on evergreen subjects, and elsewhere on the Internet we're following history as it...
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Apr.01.2011
It's April 1 --known gleefully as "April Fool's Day"-- when we gullible types are the foils of those who prey on our innocence with outlandish, often incredible, stories. Everybody gets a healthy guffaw from this (tho the laugh of the "fool-ee" is usually somewhat strained).
So...
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Mar.14.2011
I was on the other side, being interviewed. It wasn’t the first time but I constantly found myself asking the questions inside my head. It’s part of the experiences I have had. So, before I get to me, I shall get to them.
How does it feel to get into the mind of someone, I am often asked. The...
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Mar.10.2011
Woke up to green tea. And green grass. On which three bodies had fallen. The newspaper’s image was without them. Bodiless grass. Malad, Mumbai. A 31-year-old threw her son down from the 19th floor. Then her daughter. They were seven and nine years old. She flung herself after that. Dead on...
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Feb.24.2011
In December, I posted a video/blog post critiquing the disturbing interview of a victim on the Today Show. It was pretty awful, and riled a lot of you up.
This morning, I'm happy to report the flipside, on the same show. Watch how Ann Curry handles the end of this interview with a rattled mom,...
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Jan.10.2011
As a journalist myself --both in print and the even more time-critical broadcast venue-- I'm sadly aware that In breaking news situations such as the tragic Giffords shooting, errors are woefully inevitable. Much is being made around the blogosphere about the early, inaccurate reports of Gabby...
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Jan.03.2011
I'm one of those people who shows up on television just often enough for people sitting next to me on airplanes to occasionally ask, "Don't I know you?" By this they usually mean "you're not a really famous person," but they also know you weren't their dentist 20 years ago,...
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Dec.25.2010
For the first time in years, the people of Bethlehem have something more to celebrate at Christmas than the recollection of an important birth in their town 2,000 years ago.After the city’s economy was devastated by the Palestinian intifada over the last decade, Bethlehem’s economic recovery has...
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