Dr. Spaulding

If you’ve been in Baltimore long, you’ve probably seen the billboard, the courtship commercial and the wedding ceremony. This genius campaign was created by MGH Marketing for Smyth Jewelers, which resulted in a 15 percent increase in diamond sales. Last November, the blog The City That Breeds asked readers to write the back story of the [...]

Congratulations to all of my students who completed fall internships this semester. My favorite internship evaluation came from Tyler Green, who wrote: The internship opened my eyes to how thrilling working in the city can in fact be. For future interns, I offer this one piece of advice. Go in with an open mind, and [...]

It was the death of Johns Hopkins on Christmas Eve in 1873. Here’s what happened: The Sun missed the story by a curious freak of chance. It was Christmas Eve, and every man who could possibly be spared had been given liberty. The counting room, or business office, had only a solitary occupant and the [...]

I’m sad not to be teaching Literary Journalism this spring, where I get to read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote each year. Instead, I’ll leave you for Christmas with a story Capote published in Mademoiselle magazine in 1956. It was later filmed for television with Capote narrating. Happy holidays to you all. (and a [...]

Thanks to Brandi Bottalico and Courtney Lockwood I have one. I’ve got it right over my computer where it’ll always remind me of you guys and the amazing MCOM 257 class we had this semester. Thank you!

Check out these memes from j-students who work at the Columbia Missourian:

I’ll be adding these to the MCCS internship announcement page later this week: b and bthesite.com — Baltimore’s premier publication for young adults — is looking for spring and summer interns. The internship opportunities here are varied: news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle reporting and blogging; social media; copy editing; publication design and graphics; photography; video [...]

For those of you who remember reading Strunk & White with me in MCOM 257 or MCOM 407:  

The AP announced the development of new software that will automatically check your article for AP Style from within Microsoft Word. Don’t get too excited yet. It’s in beta and only available to online subscribers until the April 1, 2012, release to the general public. So much for getting automated help with those first few [...]

I know, I’m guilty too. But here’s why we’re shortchanging ourselves when we leave big projects to the last minute. Thanks to Annie Milli for the link.