…in certain circumstances, that is. This entire article rubs me the wrong way. Summary: News photographers, especially high school sports photographers, have been barred from access to sports games if their paper sells a lot of reprints online or if they won’t sign a form promising not to sell reprints. Some of these photographers directly [...]
Well, it’s not a Moleskine. But for Christmas my sister went to an indie book shop and picked up the 2008 Slingshot Organizer, a move that I had previously thought was “so not her.” (Go sis!) The thing is printed by an all-volunteer collective in Berkeley and is just a tetch more interesting than your [...]
Two recent posts on Poynter about writing about people with disabilites caught my attention recently: [1] [2] I think most of us have gotten past the poor high school girl’s quandary in #2:”I wanted to write a good story about overcoming obstacles,” she said. It’s important to write what happened, not try to fit notes [...]
My friend Vox wrote an excellent post this morning on getting mainstream media to pay attention to issues that don’t get enough coverage. Not only that, but her guide includes tips that any writer who wants to break into newspapers can use. Examples: Write a lede that is one or two sentences long and says, [...]
Having just finished writing a major project about a predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Brooklyn, I figured that now was the time to finally figure out the proper label for immigrants from Central and South America.* I remembered learning something about how “Hispanic” was a term created not so long ago, not a term preferred by the [...]
The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times front pages for April 13, 13, and 11, respectively. From Newseum and the NY Times. Can we please lay Don Imus: The Scandal to rest? The media are jumping on this like he’s the next Anna Nicole Smith. And yet I have yet to hear [...]
Over the weekend, Bush finally laid out his plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I say finally because the report was due over a year ago. His plan is, unsurprisingly, pretty wimpy–but there are a few more plans on the table, one by McCain and Lieberman, and one by Bernard Sanders (the socialist, who, by [...]
“I personally find the word ‘alien’ offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children,” said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. “An alien to me is someone from out of space.” She has introduced a bill providing that: “A state agency or official may not use the term ‘illegal alien’ in an official document of the state.” [...]
With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releasing their latest report last week and the news that Al Gore has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his documentary, I felt it appropriate to post my review of “An Inconvenient Truth.” I’ll admit it: Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” had its heart in the [...]
Today, I learned that the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, in their infinite wisdom, decided to publish a “field guide for media” so reporters will know what to do in case of a terrorist attack. Why the student paper of a 3,500-student college in the middle of Nassau County, received a copy is [...]