07.06.2012 Columns Inside Out: Journalism 101 and covering stuff you might not buy yourself A lot of smart people really seem to believe one part of a good reporter’s job is to ignore certain people. I’ve written about this before but here I...
03.09.2012 Columns Inside Out: Trying to find the right words to capture flight I’ve had a lifelong writing challenge that I’ve never managed to meet: put down the right words to make non-flyers get the same feeling about flying and airplanes that...
02.17.2012 Columns Inside Out: Teaching an old dog new tricks What to put up on the web? It’s the new chant to be sung every waking hour of every day. Only a machine could manage to handle that 24/7...
01.30.2012 Columns Inside Out: A dying art — writing heads that do the job Did you know that an old-timey copy editor would figure the name “Mashomack” as 10.5 character “units” when he or she was counting a headline to see if it...
01.06.2012 Columns Hating Iowa: a peculiar way to cover a state I happened to hear an interview on NPR last week with a journalism professor from Iowa named Stephen Bloom. I’d never heard of him and I’d been unaware of...