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In this week’s career chat, we talked with Larry Olmstead, vice president of organizational development at United Way Silicon Valley. He was formerly a vice president with Knight Ridder and managing editor at the Miami Herald. He also ran… Read more
When I read a letter from my Catholic bishop, Robert Lynch, to the faithful, it made me angry. Although it was framed as an issue of Church and State, I took the letter as a direct attack on President Obama… Read more
With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq winding down, more veterans will be relying on the U.S. government for services. To adequately report on how the government is responding to their needs, journalists need to learn the issues facing veterans… Read more
Booth Newspapers and MLive.com recently consolidated under the name MLive Media Group, which launched last Thursday.
MLive Media Group and Advance Central Services Michigan now operate AnnArbor.com, MLive.com and Booth Newspapers, and are taking a digital-first approach. More than… Read more
You thought you learned them in grade school. You know, the parts of speech, those eight basic elements of making meaning. But here’s a little secret: Those seemingly demure parts of speech are, in practice, naughty cross-dressers.
In his book,… Read more
Newt Gingrich said earlier this week that if he wins the Republican nomination for president, he won’t participate in any debates moderated by reporters. His announcement came on the heels of John McCain’s claim that it’s “time to… Read more
In advance of this weekend’s Super Bowl, I chatted with Scott Goldman, director of digital and visuals at the Indianapolis Star.
The Star historically works hard to find interesting ways to cover sporting events, from the 2010 college basketball Final… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Christina Xu, a 2011 Knight News Challenge winner and chancellor of the Institute on Higher Awesome Studies, a nonprofit that promotes microgranting. Knight gave her $244,000 to experiment with… Read more
Go to any bookstore these days and you find all the writing advice you could use in a lifetime. OK, sure, a lot of it is coming from me. I used to believe that, when it came to writing tips,… Read more
Three days after The Washington Post’s new “She the People” blog launched, it had generated enough traffic to climb to the No. 1 spot among the site’s blogs.
The blog, which provides women with a forum for writing… Read more