More than 20 years after the Internet and web-based technologies stormed onto college campuses, the life of a university student is still rapidly changing. So goes the focus of another feature I did for the newly rebranded Temple University alumni magazine. Read the story here or see the sleek new design here [PDF]. As usual, [...]

I am not going back to freelancing. Last month, I came on full-time with Technically Media, a company I helped launch and produces Technically Philly. Still, going back on my own, in some form, has returned me to thinking about and combing through some of the advice I collected in 2009, during my year freelancing. [...]

Beginnings say as much about who begins them as they do about what they begin. Journalists and writers, of professional kind or independent and online, take very seriously the ledes they produce and how others see them. It’s very likely that I have had harsher scrutiny for ledes I’ve written than for anything else, and [...]

I shared the rough curriculum I had established for working with a journalism club at a neighborhood school before my time there was cut short. Just a week after I took a full-time job and told the club’s adviser that I’d have to take a bit of a sabbatical from my time there, I wanted [...]

Before I suspended my trips to Frankford High School to work with the school’s journalism club, we established what would have been a nice rhythm. Every Thursday, I would come and give a lesson, and the following Monday, the students would use what we talked about and put it into practice by getting out of [...]

I’ve written about social media here more than I’d probably like to admit. These social networking sites are transforming the way we receive our news and information. There’s no secret there. But they keep popping up, so much so that I’ve stopped joining them, because I never know when enough’s enough. Newspapers are still figuring [...]

The following feedback came in regarding my recent article about the halted expansion of the central branch of the Free Library, as collected here: I was at the library last week. I’m not sure the expansion is a necessary ingredient of the Philadelphia ego. Chasing technology as an improvement when the city is not flush [...]

Perhaps more than any other profession, journalists live in moments, that hour’s story, that day’s deadline. Zack Stalberg was made a legend for his Frank Rizzo moment. As a 2001 Philadelphia Weekly profile suggested: Within two years the night rewrite kid is a City Hall reporter covering Frank Rizzo at a time when Rizzo was, as [...]

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:386

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 [...]