Ron Davis and I while waiting to be seated. Photo by Bri Barry.
I remember sitting in the nurse’s office in the 5th grade as she looked up my name on the computer. In my file, right below date of birth and next to my address, read “Date of HS Graduation: 2004″. I remember [...]
Category Archives: College
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Post grad plans, UWIRE, and Bill Cosby
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May
07
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How to overcome your George Blanda
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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Apr
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The 1 thing every journalism professor should do
…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 [...]
Fri
Apr
04
04
Confessions of a Journalism Student
I have rewritten this post three times.
Every time I thought I had an original point about j-schools someone beat me to it, dangit. If you have been scanning your feed reader lately, you probably noticed a flurry of posts directed at students with advice on school, and linking that advice to the future of [...]
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Jan
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Our disgruntled young journalists
With many predictions swirling around for what 2008 will hold, allow me to continue the gimmick.
I believe that 2008 will be the beginning of a movement in journalism where graduates will opt to carve their own path rather than be another layoff at a slow adopting newspaper or magazine.
What do I mean by “carve their [...]