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Monthly Archives: November 2009
An excellent adventure in reporting, Part II
Valerie Lapinski fell in love with Studs Terkel’s work a few years ago when she was preparing a radio series about jobs in a small southeast Alaska town. Little did she dream then that the death last year of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Lehren, FBI profiling, FOIA requests, investigative reporting, Jere Hester, Studs Terkel, Valerie Lapinski
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What's different about blog writing, and what's not.
Space. Time. Shape. Interactive professor Jeremy Caplan used those three words to explain the differences in how we write for online or for print. In a follow-up to Trudy Lieberman’s discussion last week, we found Caplan’s descriptions quite useful in … Continue reading
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A long-time print journalist finds her voice in blog.
When Trudy Lieberman started a blog on health care coverage two years ago for the Columbia Journalism Review, she felt like she’d been let out of prison. Suddenly, after four decades confined to the strictures of print journalism — 5W’s, … Continue reading