Tag: newspaper
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Media conspiracy, biased coverage and a shrinking newsroom
The front page of today’s Charlotte Observer featured a centerpiece that is getting a lot of backlash in the community. The story and photos are about an upcoming trial, in which police officer Wes Kerrick is being brought up on voluntary manslaughter charges for the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell, an accident victim who was…
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Nothing good ever happens after midnight
My mom used to say that all the time. I completely disagree. In fact, plenty of good happens after midnight: – The best parties don’t even start until then. – The likelihood you’ll get dinner and a show at an all-night diner certainly increases (I’m thinking of a specific instance that involved Waffle House and someone…
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We loved each other. We annoyed each other. We held each other up. We made each other better.
The day after Bin Laden was killed, I was reminiscing about life when I was a newspaper designer. Since then, I’ve been reminiscing hard core about those days. The reason it’s on my mind is because a few former colleagues are planning a reunion, and I’m designing a digital commemorative newspaper for the event. So…
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We loved each other. We annoyed each other. We held each other up. We made each other better.
The day after Bin Laden was killed, I was reminiscing about life when I was a newspaper designer. Since then, I’ve been reminiscing hard core about those days. The reason it’s on my mind is because a few former colleagues are planning a reunion, and I’m designing a digital commemorative newspaper for the event. So…
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For some, a snow day is not a good day
I’m gonna sound like a little bit of a downer today, and I don’t mean to. I absolutely love the snow. But there was a time I didn’t, and today I’m spending some time thinking about those who are negatively affected the way I once was. You know the saying, “rain, sleet, gloom of night,”…
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Sniper cars and bomber shacks and photographs that will make you cry
Ok, so I showed you the bathrooms of this place already. But that’s nowhere near the coolest part. I’m not a huge museum person. Well, I am and I’m not. I always enjoy going but I typically like to just visit certain exhibits that call my name. I don’t need to look at everything. This…
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Sniper cars and bomber shacks and photographs that will make you cry
Ok, so I showed you the bathrooms of this place already. But that’s nowhere near the coolest part. I’m not a huge museum person. Well, I am and I’m not. I always enjoy going but I typically like to just visit certain exhibits that call my name. I don’t need to look at everything. This…
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The one where snow ruins everything
I used to *love* snow. I mean, what kid doesn’t? A free pass from school and something fun and new to play with … can’t beat that … Then I got a job at a newspaper. And they had a lovely rule in which we had to drive into work even in inclement weather. Understandable,…
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The one where snow ruins everything
I used to *love* snow. I mean, what kid doesn’t? A free pass from school and something fun and new to play with … can’t beat that … Then I got a job at a newspaper. And they had a lovely rule in which we had to drive into work even in inclement weather. Understandable,…
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This will forever haunt me
My post last week reminded me of this incident that happened 4 years ago. There is a reason I can hardly bear to look at this photo: I wrote the text below in February of 2006, and a version of it was published in the newspaper that I worked for at the time. Four years later, and I still can’t…
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This will forever haunt me
My post last week reminded me of this incident that happened 4 years ago. There is a reason I can hardly bear to look at this photo: I wrote the text below in February of 2006, and a version of it was published in the newspaper that I worked for at the time. Four years later, and I still can’t…
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Hope for the best, expect the news crews
Working at a newspaper made me paranoid. In the years I spent in the newsroom, I shared space with a police scanner. A police scanner that was always on (well, except for when someone would turn it down so they could watch the latest episode of the news or Lost or Elimidate …) And in…
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Hope for the best, expect the news crews
Working at a newspaper made me paranoid. In the years I spent in the newsroom, I shared space with a police scanner. A police scanner that was always on (well, except for when someone would turn it down so they could watch the latest episode of the news or Lost or Elimidate …) And in…
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Former colleagues in my thoughts
When I was in college, studying to be a journalist, I was told that newspapers were dying. And I either didn’t believe it or didn’t have the foresight to see why that would matter to me and my future budding career. I graduated, got my first job at a local newspaper, and it was there…
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Where I was
Last year, I was in New York City and I heard the names being read, first on the TV in my hotel room. Later I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan, and they were still reading. So many names. It was so quiet in that corner of the city, that section where the towers…
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Man shows up at police station with four dead bodies
Family had always been most important to him. He always said he needed them to live. That was before they crossed him. That was before he found her lying there, in satin sheets given as a wedding present. He guessed she thought the gift was meant to share. Gertrude always said she shouldn’t have…
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One of my first design projects
Me in my room at 15, being photographed by The Charlotte Observer for an article about the teen panel I was a member of. I was very proud of my wall! Susan jokes that I was able to turn it into a career …
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One of my first design projects
Me in my room at 15, being photographed by The Charlotte Observer for an article about the teen panel I was a member of. I was very proud of my wall! Susan jokes that I was able to turn it into a career …
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10 years ago | 10 years later
Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later…
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10 years ago | 10 years later
Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later…
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September 11, 2001
On that day 7 years ago, I was still a rookie copy editor and page designer at the newspaper. Fresh from college, I had been working there just 9 months, and this day would be the first day I would see what an impact working for the media can have – not just on the…
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September 11, 2001
On that day 7 years ago, I was still a rookie copy editor and page designer at the newspaper. Fresh from college, I had been working there just 9 months, and this day would be the first day I would see what an impact working for the media can have – not just on the…