Dwayne Yancey at the non-profit news website Cardinal News just responded to a “Whatever the hell is west of Roanoke” snarky comment about southwest Virginia with an entertaining column that reminded me that 2024 is my 20th year living “west…
Dwayne Yancey at the non-profit news website Cardinal News just responded to a “Whatever the hell is west of Roanoke” snarky comment about southwest Virginia with an entertaining column that reminded me that 2024 is my 20th year living “west…
Thinking aloud here… As mentioned in the article below, free tuition at journalism schools would be a good thing, especially if journalism schools have a way to teach students how to make a living at journalism today, not just how…
This is why I have accounts on WordPress, Mastodon, and the X formerly known as Twitter. And trust newspapers on the “open web” and Google searches to find answers.I’d fallen asleep to a replay of a Meredith Axelrod and Craig…
What started as a reply to a former colleague’s reminder of a 1994 Web journalism anniversary turned into this verbose reminiscence, trying to explain how I wound up spending my weekend mornings 1994-98 helping destroy the newspaper industry by setting…
… especially other newspaper folks. Oh, that Thompson! … I never thought I’d actually know someone who was a character in a “Peanuts” book alongside Charlie Brown and Snoopy! But Doug Thompson of Floyd, Virginia, tells that story, and several…
I’m emerging from my guilt complex about not using this blog very often, or just using it as a photo album or diary unrelated to the “Other Journalism” title I gave it 20 years ago. Here’s an actual journalism question…
Just saw this Nieman Lab article via a link from its author on Twitter… https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/its-time-to-create-an-alternative-path-into-a-journalism-career/ Looks like a Thoreau article… No, voice to text, I said “thorough” article… But Henry David Thoreau didn’t have any fancy major in “opinion writing”…
October update: The new regional news website for southwestern Virginia was renamed CardinalNews.org just before launch, emphasizing that it is a nonprofit organization and removing the suggestion that it actually was printing a traditional newspaper. The publication is off to…
I’ve been making a bookmark list of newspapers and alternative sources of information about Southwestern Virginia (where I live) … Given the title of this blog, I might as well put the list here as a shortcut for others who…
I just stumbled on a NetFlix press release saying that the late Clifford D. Simak‘s novel Way Station may be a movie someday. That may be just the push I need to go back and re-read it for the first…
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