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House picture I took from the street in South Dakota this past summer for fear owner would think I was weirder than they were.


Click here: NY Times Photographer has a big hint in this video

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

Photography link

Click here for great Penn State Photography link

If ever you were stumped by photography terms, here is a great link to explain it all to you with visuals.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

Jan. 13 -Exam Review (examples of good writing)

Read this: Sport writing with a features twist

Most popular article in NY Times right now

Gaming and a troubled mind

All of these above articles sing with detail.  Tons of it. 

Exam on Wednesday, Jan 19. 
We will have a press conference with a mystery guest.  You will interview them and be graded on your questioning, your written article, and your photos of this guest.  You will have two hours to do research, question, photograph, and post your story.  Remember to look for details that are interesting for the reader and make a story come alive.  You must take a photo.  YOu will be acting like a real reporter because in fact, you are one.

If you are ill on that day, I am sorry to say that you will have a terrible burden of a project.  Please try to stay healthy so you won't miss it. 

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

Jan. 13 -- Final exam review

Great little media package on one of our own

Congrats to her.  She has a great media presence.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

Jan. 7 --Work to do today

I am still at home with this flu I had no idea would clobber me.  So, I am hoping that you guys will carry on with your stories and filling the newspaper without my presence.  Extremely unfortunate timing to be sick on my part.

YOu guys put your heads together and decide when we should finalize this paper.  It would be best if we bring it out at the beginning of new semester.  So when should we have our ultimate deadline, late night?

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

First of three warm-ups for Jan. 6

Click here for segments from doc I saw last summer

I tried to interview her on my trip last summer for the audio work I was doing.  I drove to her town way back in the mountains and my cell phone didn't work.  I had to use a pay phone at the local gas station and the skinny phone book they had.  Her daughter answered the phone.  I had seen this important film at SilverDocs in June and I was so impressed with both the film and the panel afterwards.  I wanted to put her in my audio piece from Duke, but she was already very ill in August.

I grew up in West Virginia and I know how brave she was to fight the coal companies, especially in the area she is from.  Listen to her.   She died earlier this week from breast cancer.

What do you think?

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

Jan 6 -- Look at this

So you want to be a Youth Radio Producer

January 6

Click here for Best of Year Photos from this newspaper

Watch the video.  What did you notice?  What did you like?  What made these good news photos?

How can you improve your own pictures?

Jan. 3 -- Let's hear it for a creative clarity in 2011!

Click here for great graphics work

Now scroll down for 389 Years Ago poster.  Enlarge it.  Pretty cool, right?  Packed with data, uplifting, clear.

These are the ways you help your readership understand larger issues.  Graphics are critical to this mission of clarity.

The 4A story in sports would lend itself to a graphic.  Eligibility would, too.  What else?  What can we do with this ability on other stories to lend visual interest to our publication/web site?

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md