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 [...]

In April I wrote a piece to run in the commentary section of The Temple News but never ran it. My last column was an open letter to the university’s President Ann Weaver Hart. Since last week I shared video of my commencement address, on which this column focuses, I thought I would share the column that never [...]

My final column after four years writing for The Temple News: An open letter to President Ann Weaver Hart By Christopher Wink | May 12, 2008 | The Temple News I am graduating. After four years on North Broad Street – two more than you – I have plenty I want to share with you. [...]

© Pete Marovich /drr.net Yesterday I wrote for The Temple News another in a series of stories on a controversy surrounding the possibility of Joe Frazier’s Gym closing. There will be more to come, for sure. Joe Frazier has developed a reputation for business failings that rival his status as a boxing legend. That much [...]

Last week, I posted about The Temple News covering Hillary Clinton holding a rally in McGonigle Hall at Temple, in front of a crowd of several thousand. LeAnne Matlach, the assistant News Editor, reported there; Chris Stover, the Chief Copy Editor, filed an audio story, and Sean Blanda, our Online Editor, edited down video highlights [...]

There was a huge media crunch for Barack Obama’s Philadelphia address at the National Constitution Center today, though I did cover the event as best I could. (You can also see it here on The Temple News Web site) I fought my way in, was escorted out twice, before finally get 30 seconds to take [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 30, 2007 | The Temple News Temple University has been built on the backs of the dead. It’s late October, and we think about the old, the hidden and the dead. Temple has its ghosts, indeed. TEMPLE BY GRAVES In the 1880s, Russell Conwell was laying the groundwork for what [...]

Yesterday, for The Temple News, I went with a staff photographer to the campus of the University of Pennsylvania to see former President Bill Clinton give a speech. I wrote a quick summary, grabbed a photo and had it on our site before any other media. Number of Views:103

How about having an event to increase attendance and… no one shows up? Ouch. Well, that’s what happened for a consortium between the business school and the athletic marketing at Temple University. For The Temple News, I covered the finals of a competition that asked Temple students to make suggestions of how to increase fan [...]

In a world of new media, The Temple News has taken another big step. In what we hope to be the beginning of a series, with the help of our Online Editor Sean Blanda, I have put together a multimedia profile of pop rock legends and former Temple students, Daryl Hall & John Oates. Play one of their classics [...]