the first rule of journalism
always get the name of the beer: On my way home from work, I picked up a six-pack of Saison 88, a beer produced by Santa Fe Brewing Co. The advertised alcohol content is 5.5 percent.
Archive of posts filed under the journalism category.
what newspapers do
Newspaper people don’t become newspaper people because they want to get rich, or because they want to be famous, they do so because they believe in what newspapers do. TJ Sullivan, in his explanation of why he went to Roger Ebert’s funeral
Ebert
The reaction at the office today to the death of newspaperman Roger Ebert was striking. I cannot think of another writer of American English with the same broad, beloved appeal. One friend, a younger-generation journalist who’s from Chicago, sent around a collection of particularly delicious fragments from Ebert movie reviews, and I was struck by …
A half-hearted defense of the New York Times decision to kill the green blog
I’ve been a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists for a number of years, but every year when my renewal notice comes up I wrestle anew with the membership and the label it entails.* I’m a journalist who covers topics that are sometimes labeled “environmental”, but I’m not sure how to define the subject …
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The risks of risk communication
[A]n informed and properly motivated risk communicator would proceed deliberately and cautiously. In particular, because efforts to quiet public fears about vaccines will predictably create some level of exactly that fear, such a communicator will not engage in a high-profile, sustained campaign to “reassure” the general public that vaccines are safe without reason to believe …
Drought map
(Apologies to regular readers, this is one of my examples for Daily Lobo students)
Daily Lobo Map
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#lobocamp (move along, nothing to see here)
Apologies to regular readers, these are some links for UNM Daily Lobo crew, with whom I’ll be chatting this afternoon: Google My Maps tutorial Buildings named after Pete Domenici Journal crime map The Broad Street Pump My favorite balloon-watching spots An example of a screen grab map Downloaded Drought Monitor map Sunday bird blogging, Cormorant …
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it’s gotta carry the coffee
Lingering at my sister Lisa’s dining room table this evening after dinner, my eye drifted to this casserole on a shelf opposite. My memories of childhood are vague, and I often depend on Lisa for the sort of specifics I can’t quite grab hold of. But neither of us could remember the casserole’s story, other …
Correction of the week
An earlier version of a caption with this obituary referred incorrectly to the attack that blinded Ms. Pugach. It involved lye, which is a caustic base, not acid. Linda Riss Pugach, Whose Life Was Ripped From Headlines, Dies at 75