Towson grad Melissa Hale will be participating in the New Mercury Reading Series on Wednesday, June 30. She’ll read a short piece she wrote for MCOM 409 about boxing brothers Greg and Glenn Wright. The reading will be held at the Jordan Faye Contemporary Gallery, 1401 Light Street, in Federal Hill at 7 p.m. The [...]
Have you signed up to take a picture for the Daily Camden yet? It’s a picture-a-day project of Camden Yards during the 2010 baseball season whether the team is in town or not. It’s the brainchild of Baltimore newspaperman and fiction writer Rafael Alvarez over on the website Welcome to Baltimore, Hon. I’ve had three [...]
If you’ll be in section 001 of Journalism & New Media I and curious about how you’ll be spending your fall semester with me, head over to the MCOM 257 pages. I’m still adding and fine tuning, but the majority of it is up. Next week I’ll post MCOM 407 materials.
I came into work tonight to begin opening a pile of mail that’s two feet high (the entries for this year’s Maryland High School Journalism Awards contest) and found this postcard on top. It’s a picture of Patrick Smith, class of 2009, who’s coming up on his one year anniversary working as a staff photographer [...]
My favorite stories are Baltimore stories. Here’s a few I’ve come across recently: Summer’s calling: An art of steam, by Arthur Hirsch, The Baltimore Sun: Chad Slivenski and Renee Hoover make the commute from Dundalk in about 10 minutes, rolling into the restaurant parking lot in their dark-blue Honda Element with the ‘Chad’s Got Crabs/Do [...]
From A Book of Prefaces, quoted in The Vintage Mencken, p. 37: The normal American novel, even in its most serious forms, takes colour from the national cocksureness and superficiality. It runs monotonously to ready explanations, a somewhat infantile smugness and hopefulness, a habit of reducing the unknowable to terms of the not worth knowing. [...]
From the The Mencken Society membership application: The Mencken Society is comprised of dedicated bibliophiles, appreciators of vigorous English prose, intelligent appreciators of good food, good drink and good cigars, enjoyers of serious music, cheery souls who laugh out loud at the solemn absurdities of modern life, anarchic sorts who hold that all government must [...]
Students, if you study journalism in Baltimore, you’ve got to read your Mencken. H.L. Mencken is the most prominent journalist in our history, and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. That’s why they call him the “Sage of Baltimore.” If you’ve never read anything of his, check out his autobiography Newspaper [...]
As convenient as the databases are, I love the actual newsprint.
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Stacy Spaulding teaches journalism and new media at Towson University.
"The best-written journalism comes from direct observation or eyewitness accounts of people in action." --America's Best Newspaper Writing
"The single biggest step toward better writing is better reporting." --Carl Sessions Stepp
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