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- "Chip on Your Shoulder"
Poynter Online columns from Nov. 2002-Current
Books
Essays, Memoir
- My cancer time bomb
- Leave Me Alone, AARP
- The Hardest Habit to Kick: A Confession
Audio: A commentary on National Public Radio - "The Only Honest Man"
- "Reading the Paper"
Reporting
- "Made in the Shade"
A package on Southern writers: profiles, interviews and an 11-state directory of writers you may never have heard of but are worth your time. Appeared in Creative Loafing chain. - "Mass Appeal"
A day-in-the-life profile of a telegenic parish priest in Miami. Published in Catholic Digest, reprinted in the St. Petersburg Times - "The Liberation of Tam Minh Pham"
How the first West Point graduate from South Vietnam disappears after the fall of Saigon, only to be rescued by his classmates two decades later. A cover story in The Washington Post Magazine
Fiction
- Holly Wreaths Across America
A map of newspapers in the U.S. who published "The Holly Wreath Man" serial novel since 2003. - "The Needle" - A Work in Progress
Battling for Men's Minds - "Mad Looper"
A Caddy's Life
NewsU Courses
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- Blogging's ugly side
- Memoir: A survey course
- Don't Stop, Go! When the learning is hard and long
- Time shifters--Moviemakers and their disordered narratives
- From Africa, a boy soldier's tale
- Say it again, Sam.
- Plagiarizing imagery
- What do today's (online) journalists need to be taught?
- Spinning Blackberries or Vox Populi?
- A comforting quote
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March 2007
Favorite Blogs, Sites
- 43 Folders
43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s entertaining and motivational site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better - Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
- Most E-Mailed Articles - The New York Times - Past 24 Hours
- Powell's Books
Author Interviews, Readings - Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
- Creating Passionate Users
Metacognitive explorer. - First Draft by Tim Porter
- Online Journalism Review
- David Allen
- Gangrey.com
Keeping Newspapers Alive with Great Storytelling - robcurley.com
- CyberJournalist.net: How technology, blogs and the Internet are changing the media
Online journalism pioneer - The Rhetorica Network: Analysis of Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Spin in Politics and Journalism
- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
- Sree.net: Sreenath Sreenivasan
A generous and web-savvy friend - The New Yorker: Main: Start
Always check Sunday night for selections of the week's issues posted online - gladwell.com
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