The lede is the most important part of a news story. What is a lede? It's not a made up word. It's pronounced lead --
Category: Journalism Practice
Drum Roll Please
Sorry for neglecting "Adventures" the last couple days. As I said in the last post, I've been waiting on some important news. The verdict is
Small But Fiesty
This gets my idealistic juices flowing. Small Newspaper Group, a small publisher in Illinois (has three or four local papers) has recently published a six-month
Stripping the Award: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Apparently there is a bit of an urban legend that Mumia Abu-Jamal won a Peabody award in 1981, the year before he was found guilty
Digital Pulitzer
Some of the best journalism of the year came from the New Orleans Times-Picayune's reporting during Katrina. Despite the applause they received their courageous coverage