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This is a perfectly accurate headline — given the white, monied areas the hurricane and tornadoes hit hardest — but…
After six decades of writing journalistic nonfiction, it’s time for my first novel. Years in the making, you might say. …
The Associated Press gets a lot of respect, largely because it is so large, it has so many newspaper members,…
It’s been five days since my last post and when I take that many days off, I hear from some…
A news story based on a report of racial imbalance at the Philadelphia Inquirer carefully avoids the word “racist,” which…
In a newsroom filled with larger than life characters — Jack McKinney, Pete Dexter, Bill Conlin, Larry Fields, Chuck Stone…
