I’ve been working on a blog post for the Oregon News Incubator about making choices to combat media overload — at least, I’ve been thinking about writing such a post. But it seems that everything gets in the way. There’s a reason I’ve not been blogging much in recent months. As many of my readers […]
[From my “Thoughtful Thursdays” series on the Oregon News Incubator blog…] This is not what I’d intended to blog about this morning, but there was a message in my inbox that I found particularly alarming. The sender is a PR guru, and she’d sent this message out to her mailing list to promote a new […]
This post originally appeared on the Oregon News Incubator blog as part of my Thoughtful Thursdays series. Today for ONI’s Thoughtful Thursday, we have a guest post from Rachel Horwitz! I?ve always been a pathological planner. It?s not that I?m obsessed with organization, one look at my desk and you?ll discover papers strewn about and […]
(From my “Thoughtful Thursdays” series on the Oregon News Incubator blog…) In the days leading up to our departures for the International Reporting Project fellowships this past fall, IRP Director John Schidlovsky treated the ten of us fellows to an informal pizza lunch and a discussion about “what was keeping us up at night” about […]
This post original appeared on the Oregon News Incubator blog. So if you have a few minutes to spare while you’re pitching like crazy this week*, this is generally a good time to take a look back over your hits and misses for 2011 and to outline your action plan for 2012. (* If you’re […]
This post originally appeared on the Oregon News Incubator blog. Ha! No, I’m actually not back quite yet. I’ve still got another two weeks in Washington, D.C., to round out this International Reporting Project fellowship before I return to Oregon. But I did have the opportunity to do some co-working while I was in Dublin, […]
This post originally appeared on the Oregon News Incubator blog. In the past week or so, one name keeps coming up: Nellie Bly. Working under this pen name, Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922) pioneered investigative journalism. Feigning insanity, she had herself committed to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island to write an expos? on the […]
