Posted in crowdsourcing, true stories, tagged Bing Center for Waldenstrom's Research, cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, journalism, librarian, Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, Rituxan, true stories, university, Waldenstrom's on August 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »
My mom has always been our clan’s chief information hunter and learner.
That is, until last week, when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer: Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.
Mom was a medical research librarian – someone who delighted in being a generous resource for journalists like me.
I remember her describing the day in 1981 or 1982 when a [...]
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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 in college, [...]
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Native American nuts
more about "Pecan Season in San Antonio", posted with vodpod
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Posted in bloggers, journalism, online news business, social networking, true stories, university, tagged Dallas Times Herald, Media, UNLV, Twitter, KLAS, DNCC, DNC, Ardyth Sohn, Nokia, N95, Kyte.tv, LasVegasnow.com, Fourth Estate, Fifth Estate, Reid Geary, Ariel Gove, Sandra Hernandez, Denitsa Yotova, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Denver today with a group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas students who are kind enough to call me their teacher. Fellow-learner is more like it.
Once again, we’re experimenting with the future of journalism — using the latest tools in different ways to help people get news and better connect with information, events [...]
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We’d been married less than 10 years when we bought this old house on Mahncke Park, but our cookbook collection was already big enough to demand its own built-in bookcase in the kitchen.
Each of the books has a story, which kind of explains why this librarian’s daughter thought it made sense to house Like [...]
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Posted in bloggers, ethics, journalism, online news business, true stories, tagged Amy Gahran, AP, Associated Press, Barak Obama, bloggers, Christopher Sprigman, copyright law, E-Media Tidbits, free speech, Huffington Post, Jack Lail, Kathleen Carroll, Mayhill Fowler, Poynter on June 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I kept telling myself I was way too busy to compose a long, thoughtful piece about AP’s supremely boneheaded, wrongheaded, counterproductive and just plain stupid move to threaten to sue bloggers who quote and link to AP stories but don’t pay AP.
But I am never, ever too busy to vote.
So please count my vote in [...]
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Posted in bloggers, ethics, journalism, news business, true stories, tagged Carson City, Chuck Muth, dawn gibbons, governors mansion, Jim Gibbons, KLAS, KNPR, Las Vegas, las vegas gleaner, reno gazette journal, State of Nevada, Talking Points Memo, text messages, Times Online on June 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m shocked (shocked, I tell ya!) at the high percentage of prudes and fraidy cat nannies in the Nevada press corps.
It’s Nevada, for crying out loud, home to Reno, divorce capitol of the world in the north, Vegas Sin City in the south, and legal brothels in between. It’s a place where even the [...]
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