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Friday, September 28, 2007 7:35 PM

"Side by side we for freedom will fight"

Are you in a union?When I started work here a couple years ago, I was invited to join the media union. I was all for it, being a fan of Utah Phillips music, and was surprised at the number of people who advised against joining.I didn't see anything wrong
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:55 AM

Two parter

Rex Smith, editor of the Times Union, wrote a column about speaking at a journalism school in New York - and he shared his two of advice for young journalists which I thought was worth sharing:First, we can teach them that somewhere in the morass of spin
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:55 PM

Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia

As a recent college graduate, I think it's great that Columbia invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on its campus. His appearance is a testament to tolerance and free speech. In no way do I think the Iranian president is a good person,
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:00 AM

Got an idea?, get some money

I saw this contest announced on the International Journalists Network Web site:Young journalists across the globe can enter the contest for the “Young Creators Award,” a digital journalism grant for people younger than 25.  Last day to apply: Oct
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:29 PM

Freebies

With Murdoch working to make the Wall St. free online, and with this discussion I found about free online newspapers, I wondered what the next gen journos think on the topic.Sure the pundits, publishers and higher-ups have all had their say - but we're
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Monday, September 24, 2007 2:36 PM

Quotables

Q.I am just starting my journalism career.  I'm in j-school and work at the local daily, and though I'm reporting stories, I'm kind of learning on the fly.  A problem I've run in to is that when I'm taking notes and trying to quote someone,
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Friday, September 21, 2007 6:06 PM

Top picks!

Compilation news sites are extremely useful. The compiled news site I use most often is GoogleNews.But I've recently noticed the ability to rank stories by number of hits is growing in popularity. One such site is Digg. Another is Del.icio.us. Both I
posted by ElysseJames | 5 Comments
Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:57 PM

Did anyone watch?

The Emmy Awards happened a few nights ago, and I only just realized that now. I do like to watch TV, and this may be ignorant or stuck-up of me, but I don't enjoy awards shows. They bore me and I truly don't care who wins. My paper and our Web site give
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:59 PM

That's not garbage

The L.A. Times did a great piece here on what they called 'freegans,' people who don't pay for things, and instead recycle what is already around, like grocery store food in dumpsters. Logically I completely agree with the concept. There's a lot of food,
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:00 AM

Big props!

What a great job by the Rocky Mountain chapter on throwing something just for us young'uns!Anyone know of other SPJ chapters holding similar events?The Colorado Pro SPJ Chapter will host a seminar for young journalists from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday,
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:39 PM

Rockin' out at work

I figured after Gene's serious post about cross-dressing, heh, I should write about something not too serious.Anyone else out there listen to music at work?I do all day and I'm curious who else might. I listen to my iPhone, so that if it rings when I'm
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Friday, September 14, 2007 8:09 PM

Crossdressing in the name of our craft

So to help young journalists secure internships, I'm going to be dressing in drag this year. Actually it's part of the Hawaii chapter's annual fundraiser for internships across the state. It's almost time for our annual "Gridiron" show, where we take
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:49 PM

And now an ethics question

In conversation with a nonjournalist friend last week, the topic of bias in the newsroom came up. My friend stated that all media is bias in some way and I stoutly defended my profession in its news objectivity.But then! I was reading a book by one of
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Monday, September 10, 2007 2:33 PM

Campaign finance

Who out there crunches campagin numbers? I do.My beat is covering Irvine, Calif., where the campagining is bitter and never stops. And my idea is to get ahead on covering the city's 2008 elections by starting a campaign finance database now.I'm looking
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:25 PM

Who's up for D.C.?

Yeah! I saved up enough money that I bought my plane ticket and reserved my hotel last night for the convention in Washington D.C.! Yeah, I guess I'm not quite there yet for the convention - right now I'm saving up $445 for the convention, opening
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