Gratitude Posts (#9)
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. [dcI’[/dc]m thankful to the editor who introduced me to...
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From basketball stardom to rosary beads
When she got the story assignment, ESPN senior writer Elizabeth Merrill could hardly believe it: A Villanova basketball star, Shelly Pennefather, won the 1987 Wade Trophy as the top female player in...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. Until I read “The Good Girls Revolt,” I had no idea that,...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. Microfilm of old newspapers. Basically, my entire...
View Article“Failure is the best. After you fail, you’re free.”
Lizzy Goodman’s “Meet Me in the Bathroom” is such a raucous oral history of New York’s indie rock scene that readers’ ears are in danger of ringing while reading. It’s vivid and grimy enough to make...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I read somewhere that a famous writer — Hemingway? I think —...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I’m grateful to a writing instructor who urged us to...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I am grateful for Chuck Cicconetti, the managing editor of...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I’m grateful for every copy editor who’s saved me from...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I’m grateful for a hypnotherapist in my town who runs a radio...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I am so incredibly thankful for everyone in journalism who has...
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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. My first 8 professional years at the Eugene Register-Guard,...
View ArticleGratitude Notes (#19): A lifeline from the wild
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I’m thankful for my community of fellow writers — always, but...
View ArticleGratitude Notes (#20): The mastery behind the magic
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. Nearly every day, I’m grateful that my best friend and...
View ArticleGratitude Notes (#21): Open doors and open notebooks
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I am thankful for the people who let me into their homes,...
View ArticleGratitude Posts (#22): Carved ducks and coffee
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I’m thankful for a long-ago newspaper assignment that took me...
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The chronic pain of runaway medical debt
Lizzie Presser was looking for the intersection of two wide-ranging and little-known facets of American life: the broad power of contempt laws, and the criminalization of medical debt. The ProPublica...
View ArticleGratitude Posts (#23): Family, friends and a borrowed cabin in the woods
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. I am thankful for an understanding family who supports my need...
View ArticleGratitude Notes (#24): Shorthand and a driver’s license
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. Nick Russell was the journalism professor who made my career...
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Gratitude Notes (#25): Classic guides, classy pens, fast keyboards and...
Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. [dcI[/dc] am thankful for William Zinsser’s book “On Writing...
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