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I'm taking a trip to Walter Hamilton Place between November 25th and November 30th. I'll be heading down to south Florida to get some experience — ...

Just testing GeoPress plugin to see how it works. Testing at my parent's house. INSERT_MAP

Last week I discovered the known jerk/spammer/curmudgeon wenalway hit my blog. After I got home I quickly blocked his IP and removed all the comments ...

There's something vaguely familiar with the attitude in that comic; something I don't quite understand -- why do people continue to cling to the old ...

Image via Wikipedia As the potential handful of readers of this blog know, I'm a recent graduate of  Northampton Community College's journalism program. And I've also blogged ...

Whenever someone asks me what I'm studying I cringe as I manage to squeak out the word -- "journalism." They freeze up, mention something about ...

I started my internship at The Morning Call right after Memorial Day. On my first day I wrote a story from a press release. The story ...

I was having a great conversation about evolution last week. Pretty standard fair actually: niche roles, adaptation, survival and speciation (wherein a subgroup chooses desirable ...

Today I graduated from Northampton Community College with my Associate of Arts degree in journalism. Now while all that may be exciting -- just like ...

Image via Wikipedia Awhile back I posted a photo of my mobile journalism kit where I mentioned I don't have a smart phone. Nokia seemed to ...

Last week I came across a post from Dave Lee about journalism and shorthand. He describes how learning shorthand is under debate in UK j-schools, ...

Today I ran across an issue I don't see a lot of people discussing in regard to online journalism: reporting ethics. Jim Killam's last post over ...

Today my web journalism class was "treated" with a guest speaker -- Morning Call columnist Bill White. White's been a columnist for a long time, ...

Time magazine decided to run an image of the second flag raising at Mt. Suribachi with a tree instead of the flag to highlight it's ...

I decided to rummage through the things I carry with me when I'm reporting (read: all the time). For those curious few who didn't click ...

As I posted earlier today, I used CoverItLive to post a liveblog of the presidential debate. I had some problems getting the thing to post ...

Trying out a new tool, Cover It Live. Let's see how it works with the presidential debate: <iframe src="http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=17198ddadf&height=550&width=470" scrolling="no" height="550px" width="470px" frameBorder ="0" ></iframe> UPDATE: Apparently ...

What platforms do you get your information from? Sounds like a simple question right? Then why did a guy talking about journalism trends stump an ...

So this weekend the crew and I went to Gettysburg College to take part in a journalism conference type event. Overall I'd call it a ...

Today I received a message via Facebook telling me that a 9 minute interview I did with three Ron Paul supporters was now on YouTube: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbFBapBwaSI&hl=en] This ...

I'm going to come out and say it: I've been slacking off at this blog. Now I know there aren't many readers and the impact ...

Today I ventured into the Obama campaign HQ in Bethlehem. It's a fairly calm place from what I imagined, about 20 people crowded around phones ...

So on April 5 some of my colleagues and I will be at Gettysburg College learning more about multimedia journalism and what other schools are ...

Do graphics make the story? Or do you still need to have good writing supplemented by the graphics? I recently came across an infographic on the ...

So I'm about to get started with my first foray into video. I'll be on a team of six working on a public service announcement ...