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Gratitude Notes (#7)

Gratitude Notes (#7)

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.Thankful for my mother, who read Greek…
Gratitude Notes (#6)

Gratitude Notes (#6)

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 friend Andreea, a…
Gratitude notes (#5)

Gratitude notes (#5)

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 to Knight-Ridder’s Jim Batten…
Gratitude Notes (#4)

Gratitude Notes (#4)

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. (And full disclosure: I’m one of…
Coming home from stories of war

Coming home from stories of war

 Last month, journalist, filmmaker and military veteran Zack Baddorf made a plea, in an essay for Nieman Reports, that more veterans consider careers in journalism and more newsrooms hire veterans.…
Gratitude Notes (#3)

Gratitude Notes (#3)

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 editor at the City News Bureau…
Gratitude notes (#2)

Gratitude notes (#2)

Editor’s note: As promised, we will spend December offering brief daily notes from fellow journalists about something or someone they are grateful for in their career. Here is the starter sampler from…
Dishing up some sides of gratitude with notes

Dishing up some sides of gratitude with notes

Editor’s note: It’s Thanksgiving, that singular and, for many, favorite American holiday. We welcome you to hunt around for stories of the true origins of the day, rather than the…
The 1619 project: Tracing steps backwards to find a way forward

The 1619 project: Tracing steps backwards to find a way forward

Four centuries ago this year, a privateer named the White Lion anchored off Point Comfort, an English colony in what is now Hampton, Virginia. In its cramped hold, it carried…
Some warbly thoughts on "voice"

Some warbly thoughts on “voice”

Defining a writer’s “voice” has always stumped me. It came up again recently, when a journalism professor put me on speaker phone with her class of college freshmen, who had…