Earlier this year I posted a column I wrote for The Temple News, the college newspaper for which I worked while still an undergraduate at Temple University, about ghosts on its Main Campus. It was popular then, so why not now, just one short year later? Temple has been built on the backs of the [...]

I was back in Philadelphia last month before leaving for Europe and inspired me to write a handful of posts, from my humble suggestions for the Philadelphia Inquirer to some lessons from an internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal – and the 10 Philadelphia books you have to read. Here’s another, my missing the delicious [...]

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Tonight is game three of the American baseball World Series. The Philadelphia Phillies are tied with the Tampa Bay Rays one game to one in the best of seven game series. But out of these playoffs, a rallying cry has been born. Too bad some are embarrassed by it. It began as a caller’s remark [...]

There are those terms: a reporter, a journalist, a correspondent, a newspaperman, and others. What are the differences, and which are you? Find out. Number of Views:900

Are you ready to be your biggest fan? If you want to succeed in media or any other venue where your name is your brand – comedy, acting and more – then you better be ready. Retain that humility in person-to-person interaction, but forget about it when you near the professional realm. In the spring, [...]

So you have a press release and want someone to actually pay attention to it. After noting a fine internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal, I thought I might offer some advice I got there. Through that internship, I dealt with thousands of press releases, so let me help you out. The publicity world is in the midst [...]

What would you rather write or read a story, an article or a piece? Is there any difference in the terminology? This came to mind while writing on the different titles for those in journalism, the reporters and writers and newspapermen and others. Is a story a feature? An article hard news? A piece something [...]

Politicians, journalists and over-opinionated guy talking on the street, comparing what is happening on WALL STREET with what is happning on MAIN STREET is no longer clever. Number of Views:272

Have you seen WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, the site on which my European backpacking trip with a friend is being chronicled? Check it out here. Number of Views:332