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Despite having been a news reporter, I rarely read the news. My biggest excuse is that I usually look at the newspaper while I'm eating,...

Hurricane Irene passed through this weekend, hurling branches against our house all night into early morning. Acorns rolled madly across the...

Unfortunately, my work experience and graduate degree are in two professions that seem to be disappearing. Everyone knows about newspaper...

Mostly, the Washington Post offers news of the right-now, whether politics, tragedies, or entertainment. But there are stories of regular p...

Ever since I subscribed to Groupon a few months ago, I've been receiving short, witty blurbs in my Inbox everyday, each enthusiastical...

I met Nan Chase more than two decades ago, shortly after I’d moved to Boone, N.C., to run one of the Winston-Salem Journal’s Northwest burea...

When I started work at the Winston-Salem Journal in the summer of 1985, a dark cloud hung over me, especially as I walked to work from the ...

Many times in the past, I'm sure, I rolled my eyes if I saw an old person poring over the Obituaries section in the newspaper. I thought...

In the early 90s, when I was working at the U.S. General Accounting Office, I sometimes brought a bag lunch from home and took it down to th...

So, I became a reporter for a daily newspaper in North Carolina in the mid-1980s, before there were cell phones, digital cameras, high-spee...

I’d like to say that the reason I became a reporter at a daily newspaper in North Carolina was because I had a burning desire to investigate...

Recently, my daughter asked where the Washington Post Style section was. "It's right there," I said, referring to the thin pi...

This is my first post that is here mostly to offer links to sources on a particular topic. (See previous post for more info). Although I co...

To add to my ongoing, occasional postings on newspapers , in which I've described some of my experiences as a reporter and examined the ...

Apparently, it seems, to the Web, and to the blogosphere. Recent news stories have been describing news reporters who have started their own...

Are there going to be jobs for newspaper reporters in the near future? Until recently, newspapers were always one of the few reliable source...

I went back to North Carolina for the holidays and was saddened when I picked up a copy of the Winston-Salem Journal ; it has continued to s...

When I was a freelance reporter in the Idaho panhandle, I met a lovely woman who was exhibiting her interior and landscape paintings at a lo...

As I entered adolescence, my mother often repeated, “Why buy the cow if the milk is free?”-- an adage that was supposed to inspire me to kee...