Even in this age of Twitter, it’s hard to find a journalist who doesn’t like to write long. We all love to share our prose and think ourselves masters of wit and language. We can turn a phrase like a ballerina on pointe. Which is why I was a little surprised today when my students… [Read more…]
April 21, 2012
The military is just discovering what the rest of us already knew: You can’t hide anything on Facebook. An investigation is reportedly underway to figure out how and why Ariell Taylor-Brown learned through Facebook contact with another soldier that her husband, Staff Sgt. Christopher Brown, had just been killed in Afghanistan. The military is irked… [Read more…]
April 4, 2012
Once, my husband and I were at a James Beard dinner in Napa Valley when he looked over my head (not hard to do since he is more than a foot taller than I) in apparent awe and wonder. I thought there was a beautiful woman behind me. When I asked what exactly he was… [Read more…]
March 26, 2012
All those years of drinking wine in Napa Valley–and beyond–have finally paid off–I am officially the new wine blogger for Drink Up Columbus, Cheryl Harrison’s fabulous blog about imbibing in the Capital City. I had the amazing opportunity to work for three years in the Valley as an editor at the Napa Valley Register. It… [Read more…]
March 22, 2012
The title of this week’s episode of “This American Life” left no doubt about its theme. It was called “Retraction,” and it told the story, with raw honesty and naked regret, of how Ira Glass’ acclaimed and award-winning Public Radio broadcast aired a report on the Chinese workers making Apple products, which was filled with… [Read more…]
March 4, 2012
“Daydream Believer” is on iTunes as I started typing, and I know I can choose for it to lead me into melancholy, or I can just sing along and pretend I am again 10 years old, with my hairbrush for a microphone, dueting with my beloved Davy Jones and The Monkees. Davy Jones, of course,… [Read more…]
February 18, 2012
Unlike a lot of more classically focused professors, just about all of my training has been on the job, as opposed to in a classroom. To be a reporter, I decided to skip my college paper and head straight for our community’s chain of weekly newspapers, which gave me my own beat for 10 hours… [Read more…]
January 28, 2012
The classes each quarter we spend on Twitter in my social media and journalism class at Ohio State (Comm 422, News Media Presentation) are among my favorites. It’s a true “ah ha” moment to show them the tricks and tools that will help Twitter work for them, and them work for Twitter. And it’s a… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
My son’s private little secret is now public–in the January issue of Columbus Monthly. The Body Brigade moved from Danny’s imaginative way to get me to give him dessert, to the back page column in Monthly called “Finale” (see below). It’s a little narrative about the Lilliputian-sized people who Danny says live in his body… [Read more…]
May 7, 2012
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