“COVID-19 is a crisis in search of a narrative.” Those words, from Professor Sarah Oates of the University of Maryland Merrill College of Journalism, got me thinking. She was talking…
5 communications take-aways from Pete Buttigieg’s interviews
The 2020 presidential season is heating up with an unprecedented number of Democratic candidates throwing their hats into the ring. With that comes noise. A lot of it. One person…
Career development advice: Show the love
A friend who teaches a graduate-level course in public relations recently asked me to come speak to her students about what it takes to break into the industry. One of…
Print is not dead: a photo tour of the Baltimore Sun
Last August, the Baltimore Sun moved its editorial team from its landmark headquarters on North Calvert Street to new space built around the paper’s printing facility in Locust Point. Earlier today, I…
Teaching news literacy one classroom at a time
We talk a lot about Millennials as digital natives and what that means for reaching this influential generation. Of course, access to the Internet gave rise to citizen journalism, a…