This is going to be a little random, but I am grateful to Adrienne Flynn, my long-time friend, sister journalist, and now University of Maryland journalism professor, for asking me what I think journalism students should be learning these days. Away from academia, these centipede legs sometimes take me on a run, when what I…
That’s one of my basic rules of journalism, and never has it been so delightfully true as today, when we can not only tell you what someone said, but let you hear how they said it — in their own voice. One of my students got a very rude awakening last semester thanks to an…
Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time. — Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author (thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)…