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One of the warm-up exercises at the flash fiction workshop I went to last year was to write a six-word short story, inspired by Wired Magazi...

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

I have a confession to make, and since I’m not Catholic, I might as well make it in the confession-booth-like confines of this blog posting....

The other week a writer friend took what looked to be a small, striped toiletry bag out of her leather purse, unzipped it and dumped its con...

I am not going to buy a Kindle. Not even if print newspapers disappear and "print" news is available only on such a device. Not ev...

Although I vowed in a November post ( Blog site counters—or spyware? )  that I wouldn’t use Sitemeter here, not long afterwards I added it ...

At the flash fiction seminar I went to last Saturday, which was part of the  Conversations and Connections conference in D.C., the panelis...

Perhaps it was ironic—or appropriate—that I read from The Collected Stories of John Cheever during my train ride yesterday morning to a Fla...

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...