It may not mean much to some, but the word “staff” is something young journalists seldom take for granted. And after five years, I’m so utterly proud to say that I’m on the staff of The Boston Globe. Today I began a night cops beat job here. I’ll be working three nights a week and [...]
Happy 2010 to everyone. Next week I’ll be posting about some exciting news in my career. In the mean time, read about Blast’s plans for world domination.
Every day I ask myself if I’m doing the right thing. Starting a company — a news company — at age 23 was a risk. Every day I wonder if it’s going to pay off. Beyond that, there’s the Boston Globe. People tell me all the time that I need to be at a different [...]
It’s time to start blogging again. I have a voice, and I want to share that with you. Whether you like it or not. I’m going to talk about my exploits as a freelance journalist and the editor of the happy little online magazine, Blast. This isn’t going to be a Live Journal or a [...]
We are testing WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 on PRrag.com to test it out. So far so decent. It is definitely a better visual interface than 2.6, but it’s a whole nother thing to get used to.
I have really loved using WordPress to power BlastMagazine.com, but I have been having two huge problems lately. First, we do not use WordPress Widgets. We use WAY too many plugins and have about 15 different variations of a sidebar on Blast, so we aren’t using Widgets. But it seems like everyone is converting the [...]
I walked into the For Eyes Optical in Norwood the other day. I used to go to the one on Newbury Street in Boston … I was friendly with the girl that worked there. She’s a few years older than me and real down to earth with that North Shore accent and attitude. It was [...]
Last night marked my 300th published news story with just over 270 of them in The Boston Globe. The majority of these have come this year. It’s still just as exciting to see my work in the Globe as it was when I worked my way up from obituaries as a co-op student working weekends. [...]
Just wanted to thank Harry Fuller for linking up to Blastmagazine.com in his recent post!
I simply could have not worded it better than Nick Daniloff in regards to the Northeastern University school of journalism not renewing the contacts of two of their professors, Gladys and Lincoln McKie. “This is unbelievably bad administrative management,” Daniloff told the News May 23. “I have to ask myself, ‘Do I want to work [...]