I tried to save “The Colts’ Baltimore: A city and its Love Affair in the 1950s” by Michael Olesker to read in the fall during football season. But with the O’s going into the All-Star Break with the worst record in the league, I couldn’t resist it any longer. Is it football season yet? I [...]
If you were fired, how would you say goodbye? Telling Our Stories: The Days of The Baltimore Sun is written and produced by 32 Sun employees laid off in what some call the Baltimore Sun Massacre of 2009. Yet the site bids farewell graciously with humor and admiration. Funded with a grant from the Foundation [...]
The MCOM 407 syllabus is up. I’ll be adding material to the schedule in the next few weeks.
iBooks can handle PDFs too. Here’s two I’ve put on my phone: the Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency, by Mindy McAdams, and the original 1918 version of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Over a third of the books available through iBooks on your iPhone or iPad are from Project Gutenberg, the Internet’s oldest digital library. Here are a few freebies I’m reading: In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken, 1918. Studying journalism in Baltimore? Then read your Mencken. (Start with Newspaper Days if you’re a newbie.) [...]
And design something really cool like this: Melissa A. Hale’s business card, designed by Nicole Fallek. Both Towson alumnae.
A great example of knowing when to break the rules from Harold A. Williams’s history of The Baltimore Sun: [Sun correspondent Howard] Norton and three other American correspondents were in a press camp in Verona, Italy, in the spring of 1945 when they heard a rumor that Partisans had captured the fleeing Italian dictator, Benito [...]
Greg Justice claims he’s the world’s most interesting intern. You decide: The 21-year-old Stanford University is working with Cisco’s Communications Department and posting a video week during his summer internship. He jokes that he wants to make it onto The Colbert Report. He’s got a good start, he made it onto Mashable with his first [...]
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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
