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“Overall, it was just boring. Really boring! Really boring!” --The Washington Post.

National Headline Contest 2011

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Great headlines from winner David Bowman. National Headline Contest 2011.

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Updated Journalism Handouts

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I updated the journalism portal of my online writing site, and touched up some existing handouts: News Story vs. English…

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My daughter was recently in the Stage Right! Greensburg homeschool preteen production of Once Upon a Mixed-up Fairy Tale, playing…

The Evolution of Adventure: Make Game – Asio City

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In the early 1970s William Crowther worked for the high-tech R&D company BBN Technologies as part of a team developing…

How and Why to Make Your Digital Publications Matter

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My intuition is that, even for the wary, recalcitrant, or skeptical, the ways individuals connect now online and learn from…