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This weekend I scrapped together two new articles for the magazine I’ve been writing for.  In fact, it’s doubly nice because I’ve been working out of the country for about a year now for this magazine and my editor still keeps me on.  I’m certain he has gotten interest from others seeking to do the [...]

Forbes jumped in on the party, banging out more info to make everyone feel better about the job outlook for journalists and those of us entering/graduating from grad programs in journalism in the near future.  Read up on it here: Journalism Bust, J-School Boom I can’t say they’re telling me anything I didn’t already know, [...]

An article published in the online version of New York Magazine, entitled “Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis“ suggests that perhaps, in a roundabout way, me not getting into Columbia could be a blessing in disguise. Why is that?  Well, looking at things as an outsider, it may appear as if Columbia hasn’t prepared itself as well for [...]

Not that I’m in danger of winning a Pulitzer Prize or anything, but my final writing sample is what pushed me toward being a journalist.  Sure, I’d blogged for a few months about my experience living in Spain, but that was more for my friends and family.  This piece was the first time I had [...]

Coming up next…the second writing sample I mailed out to everybody.  This article was published last summer and details all the fun of bureaucracy in Spain.  Bureaucracy is bad in the U.S., but it’s artfully bad in Spain.  You get the picture.  It’s also a better showcase for my humor–so I like to think.  I [...]

Hello again world.   Well, I’ve been debating how to go about posting my writing samples without sacrificing relative anonymity.  The samples I submitted to all of the schools I applied to were from a magazine I’ve been writing for for about a year and a half.  The problem is my name is plastered all [...]