Dr. Spaulding

When I started Michael Olesker’s The Colts’ Baltimore, I wrote here that these were the stories my uncles would have told me if they’d grown up in Baltimore. But this book isn’t only about Baltimore’s devoted Colts fans. Olesker also interviews members of the team who won the greatest football game ever played: the 1958 [...]

A short meditation on writing and reporting to start the week. Reporting is the most important part of the writing process, writes Carl Sessions Stepp in his book Writing as Craft and Magic (p. 19): If you remember only one thing from this book, make it this: the single biggest step toward better writing is [...]

Words like this make me a proud professor. From an internship wrap-up letter: Thanks to his work at The Towerlight, his game stories were solid from the start. … Colin handled every assignment with energy and enthusiasm, never balking at a story idea. … He sought the advice of veteran reporters, volunteered for assignments, and [...]

One thing Steve Luxenberg always kept in his pocket while he was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun: his story list. What if an editor walked up to him and barked, “what are you working on?” What would he say if he were put on the spot like that? Later, when he became an editor, [...]