Category: personal
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Ethics, Coverage, and a Prayer
Pay Per Publish An acquaintance, T, asked me for press contacts to send press releases to, and said that each print of PR subject would entitle the writer to P5000. As someone who got her foot in the industry through PR writing, I was unsettled with the idea. I wondered if it was just personal:…
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Reader Response: Boyfriend Beware of the Girl Who Reads
A response to this entry, as one reader/writer. Are you sure you’re not drunk? I’ve read enough young adult literature to beware of boys like you who come up to nerds like me. Just so you’d know, the glasses are not a signal of desperation, it means that I can see well enough to scrutinize…
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Putting “Un” with Fashionable
What to do when you’re covering an event that you’re awfully under-dressed for? I remember what an old editor once advised, “I don’t trust a journalist that’s well-dressed! It shows that he has time to care for how he looks!” I’ve learned to look put-together for the business beat ever since I got sent to…
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Putting "Un" with Fashionable
What to do when you’re covering an event that you’re awfully under-dressed for? I remember what an old editor once advised, “I don’t trust a journalist that’s well-dressed! It shows that he has time to care for how he looks!” I’ve learned to look put-together for the business beat ever since I got sent to…
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Aim for Heaven 2011
The title is a play on JK Anicoche and Sipat Lawin’s slogan for 2011. It has been a rocky start. As soon as work started for 2011 the bills came in, and I had to get used to the fact that I was the one picking up the tab. So this is what adulthood’s like:…