Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
Our contract was extended through August, but I told my boss that I’m leaving at the end of next week. The job has been interesting and the money helped me feel better about dropping $60 in one night on dinner, drinks and great local music. After Aug. 1, I’ll drive up to my mom’s house [...]
It’s (almost) official: I am a master of journalism. J-school commencement was last night and I received my empty diploma folder from Dean Mills. Alum and Wall Street Journal wine columnist Dorothy Gaiter spoke. We celebrated accordingly, packing the Ragtag and closing it down. The after-after party moved to my old house for music, food [...]
Southern style I returned to my volunteer gig with Childrens PressLine yesterday for my last workshop of the spring session. We had 30 kids — way more from our pre-spring break seven! We had kids from age 8 to 17, so we could run the workshop the way it was designed, with older kids acting [...]
I defended my master’s project before my faculty committee yesterday afternoon. I was prepared on paper but wasn’t exactly, er, focused. I had been sleeping in hour-long increments since Saturday night, so I was a little tired. And I made the mistake of skipping my morning coffee and eating at least half a cup of [...]
If it’s not too late for the T-P to have stuff this morning about last weekend’s Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, then it’s not too late for me to post about it. On Friday, several writers held master classes, but at $25 a pop, I couldn’t afford to go to more than one. [...]
Today was week three of Children’s PressLine. Last week, my aunt made me take my cousin because she needs a spring activity and she didn’t play softball this year. About 8-10 kids come pretty regularly, ranging in age from 8 to 13 — Eugenie is the oldest at 16. The kids read newspapers, looking for [...]
What do you see in the news? Without pausing, the kids in the room shouted their answers: crime, murder, violence, crimes. New Orleans had the highest crime rate in the country in 2008. Just this last week there were 11 shootings, 6 of them on Mardi Gras day in broad daylight in a “safe” area [...]
The last few times I’ve hung out with Alex and his posse of teachers I’ve met someone who is fascinated with my project. Last night I was the listener who had a million questions. Sometime during the fourth quarter of the Superbowl (after the best commercial + outtakes) I met a guy who got his [...]
I went to the Times-Picayune building today to meet with Lynn Cunningham, the assistant to the editor, about my project. The large newsroom was cluttered and lively, people moving about and talking loudly in the aisles. My meeting with Lynn offered a starkly silent contrast. I pitched my project and how she could help me [...]
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