Dr. Spaulding

The Baltimore Sun reported today on the launch of the NewsTrust Baltimore, which we’ll be using in MCOM 407 this semester. Check out the link and see who’s quoted in the last paragraph!

Peter Dilutis finished up an internship with Fox 1370 where he covered the Ravens and the Orioles, blogged, help design a website, and set up Twitter and Facebook feeds. Colin Stevens helped produce Midday with Dan Rodricks on WYPR. Mike Miller interned at the Baltimore Sun, where he finished the semester with a whopping 36 [...]

Is it meaningful that witches cast spells and writers spell words? Tom Nugent thinks so. Nugent, a freelance writer who has worked at the Detroit Free Press, the Charlotte Observer and the Baltimore Sun, told students during an MCOM 407 class visit this week that journalism isn’t always in the factual details. It’s also in [...]

Mike Miller (from my 5 p.m. section of MCOM 407) reports today on Towson’s appointment of Mike Waddell as athletics director. Mike Correlli (from my 12:30 p.m. section of MCOM 257) reviewed The Gaslight Anthem at Rams Head Live for the Midnight Sun blog. Way to go guys.

Mencken quaffs a legal beer just after the end of Prohibition at a bar on Saratoga Street. Happy birthday to Baltimore newspaperman Henry Louis Mencken (Sept. 12, 1880 – Jan. 29, 1956) who said his early career as a reporter was “the maddest, gladdest, damndest existence ever enjoyed by mortal youth.” Sunday marks the 130th [...]

Congrats to Mike Miller, who landed his first byline in The Sun today: Morgan State’s Brewer once had interest from Maryland

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, [...]

Kenneth Stukes is freelancing for WYPR and has landed two pieces on the air: Local Farmers Markets Drawing More Customers and Teenage Street Vendors Hawk Bottled Water. He says the most important thing he’s learned so far from his radio work is to believe in his pieces and his writing: Both stories were ideas that [...]

On the subject of slideshows, this is one of my favorites about a local subject. I mentioned this when I wrote about Telling Our Stories, but it deserves a special mention. Jed Kirschbaum has worked at The Baltimore Sun since 1978. He discusses his work in this photo/video slideshow by Elizabeth Malby. A particularly powerful [...]