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If you've missed it, check out Dan Rather's plea to journalists at the DNC.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Rather-to-journalists-youre-doing-it-wrong

A tad ironically, Dan Rather was part of 60 Minutes - the first news show in history to actually make money. The beginning of the end...

I've recently become fascinated by Wordonistas and Grammar Nazis who professionally edit grammar and punctuation. I've always been interested in the subtleties of language, but only recently have I become aware that you can edit socially (as opposed to editing in a cold dark classroom alone). See my list of journalists' blogs on the right? Fully half of those are editors' blogs - and the list is far from c… Continue

Two months ago you may have seen this story about a Journalism grad student who twittered his way out of jail. He was covering protests in Egypt when police tossed him and his translator in jail. Because he still had his cell phone, James Karl Buck was able to use Twitter, a text-messaging network, to let his teacher and colleagues know he had been arrested. From there, his friends hire… Continue

I started to think of quotes in terms of stories after entering Penny Arcade's Ten-Word Story Contest. The idea was to write a World of Warcraft-based story in just ten words. Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story ("For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn") is a tad too mysterious for me to consider as a story - it leaves too many questions unanswered. What happened to the baby? Who is selling the shoes? Who is the baby? As a reader, I'm lef… Continue

Last Saturday I went to an Asian American Journalists Association career workshop for students, organized by Judy Lin of the Sacramento Bee. We were asked to bring our portfolios and resumes for critiques, and more professional journalists than I can name were there ready to critique.

The panelists, led by Pamela Wu, all had unique insights to the industry. The main take-home message of the day: intern, intern, intern! Every panelist except one started their career through an internship, where… Continue