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Clips Update
Several new clips are posted to the clips page, most written in the last several months.
The resume page is also updated with new awards added.
Posted: April 15th, 2007 under web, work.
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Awards season
I unfortunately missed the weekend’s Society of Professional Journalists conference in Richmond, so I wasn’t on hand when James Madison University racked up a few awards.
We compete in region 2; that’s Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
Congrats to Jill Yaworksi of JMU who won third place in “non-fiction magaine writing” for a piece titled […]
Posted: April 4th, 2007 under work.
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Four Years and Counting…
On the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq, we ran two pieces on the front Daily News-Record, one on peace vigils, one on a support our troops rally. They ran side by side, of near equal length, with photos of the same size and headlines to match.
As a copy editor pointed out tonight, he […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2007 under work.
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We’re thinking buttons …
Thanks to all the new visitors popping into the site. This whole thing was envisioned as a means of professional contact, a way to keep other journalist friends and editors updated with my work, as well as my family since they’re so far away. I’ve never promised to be as savvy […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2007 under web, work.
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Little Miss Broadway
A few years ago, I walked into a dressing room, backstage from a pageant. It was one of the first I had ever covered. I watched as a mother combed mascara through the lashes of her little girl, a baby no more than 2 months old who was about to go on stage and […]
Posted: February 20th, 2007 under Uncategorized, work.
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Valley On Ice
It seems I’ve stumbled on the weather beat. This is only, say, the 10th weather story I’ve done this month. From Wednesday’s Daily News-Record:
HARRISONBURG — Road conditions quickly deteriorated Tuesday, soon after the governor declared a statewide emergency in response to the ice storm that overtook the Valley.
Forecasters called for ice up to […]
Posted: February 15th, 2007 under work.
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Invisible Children
From Wednesday’s Daily News-Record:
By Kelly Jasper
HARRISONBURG — The film opens on a shot of a young Ugandan, a boy with a sack over his shoulder. As the boy treks through dark city streets, he is lit mostly by the camera that films him.
That nameless boy, captured on film three years ago, leaves […]
Posted: February 15th, 2007 under work.
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It just makes you feel good …
From Monday’s Daily News-Record:
Man Shares Kidney With Co-Worker
By Kelly Jasper
BRIDGEWATER — A year ago, Rick Shifflett’s doctors offered a word of advice.
“They told me I needed to start making friends again,” the 58-year-old Bridgewater man said with a laugh.
Shifflett, his doctors told him, would need a kidney transplant.
It came as no surprise.
Shifflett was already […]
Posted: February 6th, 2007 under work.
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