Most photogs and cameramen avoid getting the other guys in the shot like it’s some kind of sin to acknowledge the presence of other outlets an an event. Me, I always like to grab a meta media moment. Wish that wire wasn’t in the Congressman’s face, though.
In other news, I guess [...]
“He was walking away from the scene and it was unknown to me what was going to happen,” he said Wednesday. “The situation needed to end then and there.”
Spent two days in a municipal courtroom for a very messy, very complicated story.
He dresses every day in a jacket and tie and reports to a 22nd-floor office in a nondescript building near Columbus Circle, where his neighbors are lawyers or investment firms. His office looks as if it belongs to the kind of C.P.A. who still uses ledgers and a hand-cranked adding machine. There are an old [...]
I didn’t see the BNN alert until about 2 p.m., after the fires had been burning a while. I was in Jersey City when it happened, so I had to rush down Routes 1 & 9, over to Route 3 and up Route 17 to get to Carlstadt where the flames [...]
You’ve got to read and understand the cultural forces that journalism comes from, the great traditions that it partakes of, the political and social philosophy and, at the center, good writing.
— Howard Ziff, journalist and professor emeritus
of the UMass journalism department
Today in Reporterdom: The state of the county address.
One of the great things about my job is that I’m given a lot of freedom to tinker with how we cover things. There’s no reason in my mind to write an inverted pyramid-style newspaper story or a play-by-play about a speech, [...]
We’ve been here a couple dozen times before. One of our first dates, even.
I’m always fascinated with the severed stumps along the edge of the water, where beavers have chewed the trees down to nubs. I’ve never seen one in action, but I always have my camera at the ready, just in case. [...]
The twins fought a lot. “You’re ugly,” Osbrany would say. “We’re identical,” Osmany would shoot back. They fought their other brothers, too, and their brothers’ friends. The fighting was good natured, mostly.
Friends said when the two sat next to each other in the weight room at school, they looked like one chiseled [...]
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