On the Creative page of this site, I have posted a handful of travel essays I wrote for WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, while podcasting and blogging in Europe. They are not professional clips, but if you didn’t get a chance to read them this fall on WDSTL, see them here. Direct links below. Number of Views:78

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 8, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com Worlds – yes, disparate worlds – come to some form of a cross-section in red-eyed, late nights in train stations. Early Tuesday morning, we were doing that, surfing the intersection of the young and the acutely itinerant – being reminded of the sociological difference between situational [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct 26, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com He liked the movement of the mouse cursor on my computer screen. So I pried his hands from the keys and opened up Microsoft Paint. With a few interruptions to change color and tool, a four-year-old who stumbled upon me in a park in Budapest, Hungary [...]

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:379

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct 9, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com We meet Sander and Neek at the outskirts of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Sean, his brother Brian, and I are on a bridge demarcating where the sex ends and the large, quiet residences begin. A small, sloping bridge over a small canal, 15-feet wide, on which [...]

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 [...]