National Public Radio’s Morning Edition aired a piece this morning about why there are still troops in Iraq and how long they might be over there. Eric Westervelt specifically reports on the Army’s 3rd Division. This division calls Ft. Stewart in Savannah, Georgia, its US home. My best friend Paul’s Army reserve [...]
Yesterday, I took a survey circulated by a news library colleague and learned something very interesting about my career. I’ve been working in libraries in various capacities since 1989, yet I have never held a “professional level” position. My current job doesn’t even count. Many of my news librarian colleagues don’t have [...]
One of my readers, Paul, asked for an update on the finches, so I’m indulging his wish (just this once) and posting it for anyone else who might be remotely interested. I haven’t seen the pair that was nesting on my balcony at work since last Friday. I guess they found another spot [...]
Neil Henry, a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, has an interesting piece in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education about how a journalist’s race might effect his/her career after Jayson Blair, an African-American, admitted to plagiarizing and fabricating facts in articles he wrote for the New York Times over a [...]