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January 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:39 PM

Shift change

I always thought the phrase, "change of shift," sounded really redundant when taken out of context. Anyway, for the past year, I've had the early morning shift of the paper. I wake up every day at 6 a.m. to report to the police station and make the morning
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:46 PM

Stuck in the habit

When my editor is reading my work, I have a tendency to sit behind him, reading over his shoulder and doing some "backseat editing" (I guess you could call it that... kind of like backseat driving). After copy editing for a few years, and doing
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:42 PM

Determining an agenda

Somehow, the media often knows news first. Much of the reason behind that is people tip us off. Reporters are frequently getting calls from the public letting us know when something's going down.But we can't forget to ask ourselves why they call.For big
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Friday, January 11, 2008 12:31 AM

How much is too much?

I've been a reporter for only a few months now and when I got a work cell phone the first thing I did (after turning it on of course) was put the number on my office voice mail so that contacts could reach me when I'm not in the office. Being available
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Friday, January 11, 2008 12:13 AM

Rethinking and renewing

It's a new year and time to renew my committment to the SPJ blog! So, what has everyone been doing during over the holidays? Any resolutions? Sonya in her last post asked if we have any New Year's resolutions. Well, I do. I recently got a job as
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