Category Archives: College

How to overcome your George Blanda

5/7/2008 – 6:23 pm

I started this blog, in part, to dethrone a Hall of Fame NFL kicker.
George Blanda played the longest of any player in NFL history and had the most points in the history of the league until Gary Anderson broke both records. This distant relation was fine for anecdotal reasons and good for a story […]

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The 1 thing every journalism professor should do

4/16/2008 – 10:55 pm

…is give class credit to any student who gets published during the semester.

I had a former professor and Inquirer writer Tom Gibbons speak my “Journalism and Trauma” class (one of my favorites, taught by Pulitzer Prize winner Jim MacMillan). In the lecture, he said he often gave students extra credit for getting published.
Why isn’t this […]

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