Teaching Old Dog New Tweets (0)
1/27/12 •
Count on The Poynter Institute to remind journalists how important it is to keep your skills fresh, and no better example of this ongoing education Poynter provides is this essay about tweeting. In the essay, Paul Krueger discusses the importance of keeping skills fresh, and he discusses the topic through the eyes of an “old dog.” But when that old dog is Sports Illustrated writer Peter King, people must listen.
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Duke unravels Temple, doing so with spirit (0)
1/27/12 •
Ah, it’s time for March Madness, and what better way to open this sacred month than with an example of a marvelous game story for the NCAA Tournament. David Teel, writing for The Newport News Daily Press, captures the madness with all its textures in this coverage of the Duke-Temple game in 1998. Yes, it was hoops yesteryear, but the excellence of Teel’s prose provides tips on how to cover games well.
My 13 Golden Rules Of Twitter (0)
1/26/12 •
How “tweet” it is? OK, bad pun, but I think you get the point. If you’re not tweeting, you’re not making a connection with the broad audience in the blogosphere. But you can’t tweet nonsense. Tweeting has some rules, and Darren Rovell of CNBC spells those rules out well in this post on “tweeting.”
Lonely child, successful athlete, generous man (0)
1/26/12 •
Serious practitioners of sportswriting know the name Pat Forde well. He might be the best college writer in America, and if people want to argue the point, go right ahead. But it’s hard to claim he’s not among the best after reading his award-winning story on basketball player Derek Anderson.
Lying to be in America: Is amnesty right way to fix the problem? (0)
1/25/12 •
We ought not tolerate men like Fausto Carmona who enter our country illegally. While we understand their reasons, we can’t just permit them to break our laws without consequences. But we are not without compassion; second chances are as American as Jell-O. Maybe second chances are what “illegal aliens” need.
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