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Global Warning project nominated for Online News Association award
The project I worked on in the fall of 2010 has been nominated for an ONA award! Global Warning is a finalist in the “Multimedia Feature Presentation, Student” category. We set out to answer some...
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Medill reflections: Look how far we’ve come
When I took the the ONA award we won for the Global Warning project to the Medill Newsroom in D.C. today, I looked through the info material about the master’s program. It struck me that I found a...
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Newlywed in Florida
Best wishes to my wonderful friends Jacqui and Chris as they enter their married life together. Thank you both for sharing this special day with us. (Click on the image, then the individual pictures...
View ArticleA photographer, a poet, an author and a mental patient
How does a woman live with 100 separate personalities who appear and disappear on a whim? How does a 6 foot 8 – more than 2 m – tall photographer cover the war in Libya, where “the higher (something)...
View ArticleOn self-doubt and people who write better than you
There’s always that moment when you look at a piece you’ve put hard work into, and you realize it’s crap. Not crap per se, maybe, but definitely not as good as you want it to be. The writing’s not as...
View ArticleNew projects, new adventures await
Today is my last day at ABC7/ WJLA in Washington, where I’ve been a web editor for the past nine months. I recently started a new project, blogging about the 2012 Presidential election in German. After...
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Happy holidays
I’m emerging from a holiday-related absence, a week spent almost entirely without using a computer. Instead, there was a Christmas tree and carols and family and love and joy and candy. So much candy....
View ArticleNew job: Scouting the social web for dapd
I have some personal news to share: I recently started a new job as the first social media editor at the dapd news wire here in Berlin. I will cover digital issues, survey social media channels for...
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A window into the soul
I’m fascinated by languages. Speaking them, learning them, finding the right words to describe a situation. However, many of the worlds 7,000 languages are endangered: Fewer native speakers remain, and...
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To succeed, first learn to fail
What sets successful people apart from unsuccessful ones? Intelligence may be less important than how we deal with failure, according to the Wall Street Journal. When presented with a task that’s too...
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