Past the Byline

considering journalism in the current climate.


Recent posts
  • An Unrealistic Standard

    It’s the first thing many of us learn in our first journalism class. Your intense news writing professor sits you down and tells you, “write objectively. Keep your opinions out. Report on just the facts.” So you follow their instructions, write all your articles and scripts as such. Then your third year of college rolls…

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  • Print V. Broadcast

    There are two very different sides to the news industry: print news and broadcast news. While we’re all journalists, we deal with different standards of tone, writing style, format, timeliness and many more factors. I’m a broadcast news person through and through. While my last post was about how much I love grammar, the truth…

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