Westchester County Versus Panola County: Part One
I moved to Westchester County, New York in late May. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out why Westchester is so different from where I grew up in Panola County, Texas. It’s not that there aren’t obvious differences: Westchester happens to be a suburb of New York City. Panola County is in the middle … Read more
Google Fusion On The Job
I’ve been keeping an eye on #ona11 tweets from the Online News Association’s 2011 conference in Boston. Not all the time, unfortunately, but enough to remind me that I really want to explore data visualization. There are some differences between working for a community news site as opposed to a metropolitan newspaper. For example, a … Read more
I Am a High School Band Legend
I’m taking literary journalism this semester, and one of our assignments was to write about a moment in our life. I’m posting my moment here because one of my classmates wanted me to so she could send the link to her boyfriend. Plus, this is really funny: I am a high school band legend. That’s … Read more
Crazy in My Mailbox
Somehow, I ended up on the DCCC‘s mailing list. I blame my subscription to Mother Jones. It’s a kick-ass investigative journalism magazine, but let’s face it: the subscriber demographics skew liberal. Therefore I occasionally get political mail. Sometimes it’s kind of hilarious. That’s the nature of political mail—it’s old fashioned propaganda designed to get you … Read more
SMU Link Soup: It’s Mmm… Mmm… Good
I used to round up links for my EIC blog (before I apparently forgot how to post to it). I figure this could be a good thing to do on this blog, since I’m still getting Google Alerts about SMU. I can’t wait for graduation and the day I can turn them off. So without … Read more
My Bad: The Importance of Admitting You Were Wrong
Just because you never run corrections doesn’t mean you’re never wrong. I was talking to Craig Flournoy, one of my journalism professors, one day last April when he said something to that effect. The Daily Campus had just run a correction recently, and he was telling me that we, the paper, were doing the right … Read more
