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Friendly favors or manipulation?
“You’re such a manipulator,” my husband told me the other day. He didn’t say it during a fight or any other negative circumstance. I don’t even believe he meant for it to be mean. It was just a blatant statement of his opinion. What I found more surprising is that I didn’t take offense to … Continue reading
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Here’s something that bugged the hell out of me at my old job at a daily paper. Too often, my editor would ask me if I had a story for that day. If I didn’t, he’d tell me to start looking. Find something. Anything. We have to fill the page. This concept of “filling the … Continue reading
Stealing the title of a Dr. Seuss book that inundates the shelves of bookstores everywhere around graduation dates, I’m going to apply that to my career so far to talk about some of my favorite stories I may have never experienced had I not left the office to go looking for them. Notice, I said, … Continue reading
In preparation for a post here at PaperKindling, I do a few things. First, I think of a subject that’s been weighing heavily on my mind. Usually it stems from the daily experience here in the Echo newsroom. Maybe it’s something one of my fellow journos, colleagues, co-workers or students mentioned in passing. Secondly, I … Continue reading
Today, I’d like to talk about something that came up while I was in the Echo newsroom, chatting with my fellow journos about this and that. One thing a lot of us have in common is higher education. Four of the five Echo writers have attended, are attending or (in the case of myself) planning … Continue reading
Laura Fosmire
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