Fair pay and fair play

Today is fair pay day. Here’s my part: I got into the journalism racket back in 1975, when the newbies were relegated to the manual typewriters and when it was considered too demeaning for a male reporter to be assigned to the “Womens” section of the newspaper. Although I’d completed one meager semester of journalism [...]

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The Twitters tell the story

I was asked to be the wrap-up Rapporteur for the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin last week. The conference had the Twitter hashtag #isoj, and, partly because it is Webcast live, people were watching and Twittering about it in real time on at least four continents. (Here [...]

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Fiesta fireworks

Fiesta Fireworks over Fort Sam Houston

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