If you follow me on Google Reader (87 of you do), you know that I share news items there. A lot. About four or five a day, in fact. If you’ve wondered what I’m doing, here’s my Google Reader strategy: First, I’m curating news items (mostly local and industry items) that I think are specifically [...]
Last weekend The Baltimore Sun reported that for each of the three nightly 11 p.m. newscasts in Baltimore, ratings have dropped by over 50 percent. Fewer audience members will result in fewer advertisers, says Tonight at 6 author Michael Olesker. And that means less money to hire experienced talent and an even thinner newscast. I [...]
In Tonight at 6, veteran Baltimore journalist Michael Olesker makes a devastating case that audiences are being defrauded by television news. That TV represents the “empty calories” of news is just the beginning. Olesker documents outright dishonesty in the repackaging and presentation of on-the-street news coverage that isn’t. “They are people who never leave the [...]
Tom Nugent’s job was to find the soul of Baltimore. Nugent, a freelance writer who now lives in Michigan, worked at The Baltimore Sun from 1978 to 1983 when the paper had an enormous feature section. Some of his stories: He spent two weeks having a drink at every bar along Eastern Avenue from Fells [...]
Student often ask me what clips and links they should send with their resumes. When Patrick Skene Catling (whose Wikipedia page didn’t mention The Sun until I edited it) interviewed at The Baltimore Sun in 1947, he brought every single clip he’d ever published for managing editor Charles H. Dorsey, Jr., to read. That included: [...]
This is what I’m currently researching and writing about. This footage was shot at a bar two doors down from my house.
Today I met the cousin of Lisa Sergio, the woman I wrote my dissertation about in 2005. Rick Tigner lives in Atlanta and found me last March through a Google search. He’d periodically searched for his famous cousin before without luck. All of a sudden this year my name popped up. He traveled to Washington [...]
In my academic life, I’ve been writing about the history of women journalists in the 20th century. (My latest article, Off the Blacklist, is coming out soon in the international journal Journalism Studies). As I finish my biographical study of World War II Italian propaganda broadcaster and U.S. news commentator Lisa Sergio, I’m doing background [...]
I saw Buddy Guy at a blues fest a few weekends ago, bought his CD Skin Deep and found the song “Who’s Gonna Fill Those Shoes.” Here, he plays it with Lindsay Eli: In this 2001 clip, he talks about learning how to play from B.B. King:
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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
