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 [...]

As a young, aspiring journalist, I want to know what it is I need to have, what I need to know and what I need to learn. I’ve spoken to some friends, colleagues and with a few professional internships in my past, I think I am ready to fill the vaccum. What needs to be [...]

I have been pretty active developing my blogging skills. No, seriously, there are blogging skills. So, when I saw that BNet, an online business news site launched in 2007 by CNet Networks, was looking for bloggers, I wanted to give it a go. I’ve been in talks with some folks there, who wanted me to [...]

Last Thursday, during a week revisit to Philadelphia, I shared happy hour with a few friends from my internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal, with which I had a great six month-internship the last semester of my college career. With a little work, I got tons of solid clips and great experience (detailed below) with [...]

Ostensibly, journalists write for others. So I get really excited when readers respond to what I write. That can go further when someone uses my reporting for broader purposes. A common rag on newspapers and most media is that their reporting isn’t in-depth enough. Of course, the response is that one can’t track trends without [...]

I finished a two-week rotation in the Harrisburg bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer last month, as part of my internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association. I’ve since moved on, but because I am in Philadelphia, I thought I would share some thoughts that came to mind about improving the third oldest daily newspaper in [...]

A photo of an infant clutching a beer is currently paired with a story of mine on Google News, as seen above. Google’s news aggregation tool couples top ranked news stories with photos from related stories that are similarly rated. So, while my story on college presidents calling for a dialogue on underage drinking ran [...]

I stumbled upon a fine journalism poem, celebrating its 50th anniversary. Number of Views:137

Vince Fumo is the funniest indicted state senator in the history of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. To Philadelphians Fumo is tinged with corruption, his name only said amid seething recounts of his 139-count indictment looming in the fall. But in Harrisburg, his professional home since 1978, Fumo is still a force. After a second heart [...]

I am gaining a lot of perspective, I think, while serving a post-graduate internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association. More than just the newspaper bubble, today’s industry fears are the result of another cultural divide, just like one journalism faced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, famed by the Watergate scandal. We can [...]