I’m writing this for me. By any of today’s guidelines and metrics, it’s too long. But it feels like the right way to take stock of my career.
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Business reporting has some of the most troubling practices I have seen since I started paying close attention. Today is no different.
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For Transgender Awareness Week, the Trans Journalists Association has compiled a list about best practices for covering trans communities.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how often I’ve felt as jarringly out of place as Steve Buscemi’s “30 Rock” character is in that high school.
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This quote delivered by Philip Seymour Hoffman in his role as rock critic Lester Bangs remains my favorite line from “Almost Famous.”
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A co-worker’s story timed for the 30th anniversary of “A League of Their Own” inspired me to tell a story I’ve kept to myself till now.
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My connection to the home run chase for 61 literally starts at birth and continues today.
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A bully, a coach and a nun did me wrong when I was a child. Sometimes, evil literally whips your ass.
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It’s hard to function without separating fact from fiction. A follow-up to my post about the greatest fact-checking lesson of my life.
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Published May 3, 2018
My desire to see “The Post” owed mostly to my long career in newspapers, but motivations are often complex, and that was true about my interest in this movie. A believer in the role that newspapers have as watchdog, I felt an extra pull to view Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham. Those characters, the editor and the publisher of The Washington Post at the time of the controversial public disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, have been well known to me for decades.