Last August, I learned that my staff had won a first place Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award. This August, after some bureaucratic snafus and a mailing mishap that left the first trophy a shattered mess, we got the replacement. When I pulled it out of the box, I found myself paraphrasing Chief Brody in “Jaws”: “We’re [...]
Made my first post at Triad Diary, the paper’s blog about life in Greensboro. Herb is bitter I didn’t post it here first. I’ll try to get a photo and post it here.
Our children have developed distinct and separate newspaper reading habits. In these days of media competition and declining newspaper use — especially among the young — the fact that they have a newspaper habit at all is astounding. I don’t really think it’s because we work there, but because they see us read it every [...]
I’ve had many a conversation with Seth Gitner, a colleague at our sister paper in Roanke, Va. The guy’s gone big-time now, garnering accolades for his multimedia work, including a Digital Edge award in 2006 for The Crooked Road. He’ll be speaking at a National Press Photographers Association Multimedia Summit in Portland, Ore, at the [...]