Thursday, December 04, 2008
Toot, toot. Yeah, beep, beep.
I'm about to toot my own horn.I rocked the rims off this story. And it was just a man on the street color piece about our local DMV closing.
Here's the link. Click it. You know you wanna read it.
Too lazy to click? Here's the lede:
WEST WARWICK — The wait time at the Registry of Motor Vehicles office here yesterday was about an hour and a half in the early afternoon. But you didn’t need a ticket to tell you that.
The blond wooden benches lining one wall were spotted with people reading books, chatting on cell phones or just sitting staring into space. Some men paced and read the signs on the scuffed rose-colored walls. Everywhere you looked, it seemed, someone was waiting for the automated voice to call their number over the loudspeaker: “Now serving 631 at window four.” continue...
Friday, May 02, 2008
Awarding behavior
They announced the finalists for the Livingston Awards yesterday, recognizing the work of talented journalists under the age of 30.Be inspired.
I'm not on the list, but I do have some pre-award butterflies in my tummy.
Tonight is my awards ceremony for the Rhode Island Press Awards.
I've got my dress (a smart black sheath) hanging on the coat rack outside my cubicle. My pumps and shiny purse are in a bag under my desk. I couldn't take the pressure of having to keep my outfit presentable all day, so I figured I'd just change just before the ceremony.
I'm trying not to be too amped. I really am. I don't want to be cocky. And I want to be surprised.
I am, however, thinking positively.
On my resume I added two new lines under awards:
2007 Rhode Island Press Association First Place - Spot News
2007 Rhode Island Press Association First Place - In-Depth Reporting
Sigh.
One can always hope.
Labels: awards, inspiration, spotlight
continue...Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Nuh uh, You can't tell me nothing
I'm going to take this time to apologize in advance, because I'm about to get ignorant.So, I walk into the office this afternoon to find out that apparently, I'm doing a good job. Two of my stories were selected as finalists for the Rhode Island Press Association Awards!
Big deal? To me it is.
I have yet to win any journalism awards since all the hoopla happened at Hampton a few years back. (Not hip to the situation? Google me.) So ever since I got to Providence in October 2005, my goal was to get an award, just so that I wouldn't feel like the highlight of my journalism career came while I was in college. Depressing thought to think it all goes downhill from there, right? Right.
I remember talking to my girl, Jessie, last year when she won some press awards in Florida. Awards aren't everything, she said. Yeah, I replied, but they're still nice.
Now I get some of my own. So I'm amped.
The thing is, I don't know if I actually won-won, or if I'm honorable mention. The way the Press Awards here works, they give you the names of the finalists and then they announce your ranking at the ceremony, which will be on May 2. Either way, I'm taking it as a win and hopefully, there will be plaques involved.
Please believe I'm going to update my resume on May 3.
Anyway, just in case you missed the stories (which oddly enough, I blogged about right here on Ten95) the two stories up for awards are:
InDepth Feature --- A Job With Heart and Sole, Feb. 2007 blog
and Spot News ---- Mother Guilty of Killing Child, Oct. 2007 blog
Alright. Got that out.
Guess it wasn't as ignorant as I thought it would be, huh?
Labels: awards, milestones, spotlight, writing
continue...Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Young Journos Wreck Shop
Who says young journalists don't do big things?The Livingston Awards, a national contest for exemplary reporting for finalists under age 35, announced its finalists for the 2006 awards.
So if this isn't inspiration to do great work, consider the $10,000 prizes handed out for Local, National and International Reporting. Congrats on all of the nominees, and Big Ups to Ten95-supporter Kelley L. Carter of the Detroit Free Press, who is among the finalists. Winners are announced June 5.
Livingston Awards finalists, who include print, broadcast and online journalists are:
Esmeralda Bermudez, The Oregonian
Amy Biegelsen, Style Weekly
Michael Blanding, Boston Magazine
Jill Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor
Kathleen Carroll, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
Kelley L. Carter, Detroit Free Press
Allison Brophy Champion, Culpeper Star Exponent (Culpeper, VA)
Christopher Collins, The Merced Sun-Star
Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly
Sharon Coolidge, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Oscar Jose Corral, The Miami Herald
Amanda Crawford, The Arizona Republic
Benning DeLaMater, The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA)
Jeff Eisenberg, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
Andrea Elliott, The New York Times
Gady Epstein and Stephanie Desmon, The Baltimore Sun
Will Evans, Salon.com
Sarah Fenske, Phoenix New Times
Carlos Frias, The Palm Beach Post
McKenzie Funk, Mother Jones
Vanessa Gezari, St. Petersburg Times
Gregory Gilderman, Philadelphia Magazine
Michael Grabell, The Dallas Morning News
Eliza Griswold, Harper's Magazine
Jason Grotto, The Miami Herald
K. Oanh Ha, San Jose Mercury News
James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review
Jesse Hamilton, The Hartford Courant
Eric Hand, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Shane Harris, National Journal
Chris Hawley, The Arizona Republic
Brian Hendrickson, Vancouver Columbian
Claire Hoffman, West Magazine (Los Angeles Times)
Ian James, The Associated Press
April Jimenez, Long Island Press
Sam Kennedy, The Morning Call
Jeremy Kohler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Matthew LaPlante, The Salt Lake Tribune
Jared Jacang Maher, Westword
Abraham McLaughlin, The Christian Science Monitor
Paul Meyer and Stella Chavez, The Dallas Morning News
David Morton, The New Republic
Brian Newsome, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
Yoshiaki Nohara, The Daily Herald (Everett, WA)
Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune
Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times
Nathaniel Popper, Forward
Matthew Power, Harper's Magazine
Charles Michael Ray, South Dakota Public Broadcasting
Guy Raz, National Public Radio
Bill Reiter, Kansas City Star
Brian Rokus, CNN
Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe
Mara Shalhoup, Creative Loafing
Jeff Sharlet, Harper's Magazine
Kara Spak and Tara Malone, Paddock Publications/Daily Herald
Todd Spivak, Houston Press
Laura Sullivan, National Public Radio
Jim Tankersley and Joshua Boak, The Blade (Toledo, OH)
Kevin Whitelaw, US News and World Report
Emily Witt, Miami New Times
Labels: inspiration, spotlight
continue...Monday, April 23, 2007
Go, Vandy!
Ten95er Marcus Vanderberg talks to the folks over at Journalisticks.com about blogging, writing and lots of other great stuff.Check him out.
Labels: spotlight
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