Twitter Tips — How Twitter Can Help Journalists

I never thought I’d be a Twitterer who twittered tweets. That’s what I told myself when I first started researching Twitter and its benefit for journalists. Now, I use Twitter on a daily basis, not so much to tell people what I’m doing but more so to keep up with what people are talking about [...]

Elie Wiesel: Higlights from His Talk at Eckerd

I could only see his gray tuft of hair from behind a sea of heads, but I heard his powerful words. The words came from Elie Wiesel, a man who survived the Holoucast and survived to tell his story. And boy is it a story worth telling. Even from just hearing him talk for a [...]

Rebuilding Trust: What Newsrooms Are Doing

(As it appeared on www.poynter.org)
I just wrote an article for Poynter Online about the public’s distrust in the media. I got the idea for the story after reading Sacred Heart University’s recent media reliability study, which finds that 86 percent of the public agreed (strongly or somewhat) that the news media tries to influence public [...]

Love Between the Lines

Lots of people give me books as presents. They know I love to read and that I someday want a library in my dream house. I laugh when people give me books about love. Once, my grandma bought me Dr. Phil’s book, “Love Smart: Find the One You Want, Fix the One You’ve Got.” [...]

Gangrey.com: Keeping Good Writing Alive

(Video part of an “Invisible Narrative” project recently mentioned on Gangrey.com.)
One of my new favorite Web sites is Gangrey.com. Run by a handful of young writers at the St. Petersburg Times, Gangrey is like a well-kept candy shop open to anyone who appreciates good writing. There are often links on the [...]

Car Buying Tips

My new car — a little big, but fun to drive. A bit of an upgrade from my ‘93 Ford Tempo! RIP, little Tempo.
My dad, the car fanatic that he is, sent me a list of car buying tips and a list of recommended cars when I told him I needed to buy a new [...]