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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:15 AM

Early election coverage

What topics do you focus on when covering city elections? What is the best and worst thing about covering politics? This will be my first year covering an election and I'm looking for tips!
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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:56 PM

Just making democratic conversation...

Like everyone who has been following the election season, I wanted to know where in the world Obama and Clinton were. So I was watching CNN, and Candy Crowley was parked in front of Clinton's Washington home, assuming it was the meeting place. Of course,
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:18 PM

Hello again

Hi everyone!So sorry for the long time you've waited for something from us gen jers.I've transitioned to a new job at the OCRegister, as a technology reporter through March, and I've also been elected as SPJs region 11 director. But, neither of those
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:48 PM

Don't be stupid

I never knew what those words meant when I went through wildfire training at the Register. Our required training covered all the basics of covering a wildfire, something I was assured I might cover - but something I never really thought I would.Until
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 7:21 PM

Ethics revisited

After much anticipation, here's the ethics post, as promised!For review, here's what I said: Media are the gatekeepers of information. Indeciding what's news and what isn't, we're essentially biased. Our bias is cultivated by those
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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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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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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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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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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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Friday, August 31, 2007 7:30 PM

We have a destination! Sort of...

In my last post I asked people to share their opinions on the state of the industry and the direction journalism is headed. Here's what I learned:     From what everyone said it seems the future will be in video/Web news. The journalists
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:30 PM

Who's the publisher again?

As young journalists, much of our interaction with the top brass in our organizations are usually limited to head nods, hellos and water cooler talk. As a fairly new employee of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (one year in September), I've barely had interaction
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Friday, August 24, 2007 2:22 PM

What would you do....

If you were publisher?That's what my newspaper's new publisher said he likes to ask of his employees. He said that is what helps him to understand a newspaper, while coming up with innovative solutions.So...my response. Will you all please share your
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