How’s the weather out there?
This quote is from one of my favorite websites, Overheard in the Newsroom: Reporter to source: “How’s the weather? We don’t have any windows so I have to call and ask people how it is outside.” The...
View ArticleDear PR people, what are you thinking?
PR people are really tiring me out today. I’m sorting through dozens of pitches on health issues from companies in California, Washington DC and London that I absolutely don’t care about. I can live...
View ArticleDead by Mistake wins state AP award
The Times Union won 23 awards from the Associated Press Association last night. Dead by Mistake won the 1st place award in Depth Reporting, award in the category of newspapers with 50,000 to 125, 000...
View Article77 cats and group intelligence: all in a day’s work for a reporter
Being a reporter means I get to cover a lot of interesting, strange and fun things. Sometimes all in one day. Take Saturday for example. I was the daytime cops reporter, but when I first arrived,...
View ArticlePoll: Still time to tell me what you want from this blog
UPDATE: It’s not too late to share your opinion and let me know what you want from this blog. I’ll close the poll next week and let you know the results. Please forward this post to anyone you know who...
View ArticleAnyone can visit hospital patients, including reporters
A new federal regulation (Hospital visitation rule change hailed) to make sure same-sex couples can visit each other at the hospital bedside has an unexpected benefit for reporters – to my delight....
View ArticleAudio: Angry caller says stop insulting seniors
This angry caller on my voicemail was upset with the implication that senior citizens are incapable of navigating the Internet to find a Medicare program that best fits them. She was responding to my...
View ArticlePhotos on the wire
One of the daily joys of being a journalist is looking at the Associated Press wire. Every time I log onto our newspaper’s archive to look up a story (today I was searching for “Chantix” and “Suicide”)...
View ArticlePeople I write about help me through my own health crisis
I spent eight wonderful days in Thailand last January for a friend’s wedding before a stomach bug locked me in the hotel bathroom for two days straight. I recovered just in time for the 14 hour flight...
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