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 professional writing career has built upon the reporting … Read more
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, practically yesterday, women … Read more
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 college hoops, then went abroad for a … Read more
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 “Bird by Bird.” … Read more
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. Steve Ronald, one of the top editors at the Star Tribune most of the time … Read more
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 myths to me and my sister during summer … Read more
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 brilliant sports journalist in Bucharest, who’s been my … Read more
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 who delivered — essentially posthumously — on his … Read more
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 those people who has a thing about pictures of spiders … Read more
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. Besides more accurate subject expertise, … Read more