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A madman with a vendetta and a shotgun will not stop the press

A madman with a vendetta and a shotgun will not stop the press

  If you’re a reporter in the news business long enough, you’ve written stories just like the one a former Capital Gazette columnist penned about Jarrod Ramos and some trouble he got into back in 2011. Ramos is the guy who apparently felt so begrudged by the columnist’s words that he blasted through the glass door of…
by Chris Graves

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Where am I and what am I doing?

Where am I and what am I doing?

Posting will be light here today as I am on the road working on a piece for next week. It's all a big mystery and very hush-hush unless you listen to the podcast about NewsCut Stephanie Curtis cranks out every afternoon.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The daily paper

1,000 Words: The daily paper

“I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow!” – Chase Cook, reporter, The Capital Gazette Read this thread from MPR hero Jon Collins: 2) If you want media that perfectly reflects your worldview & ideology, excluding all else, you don't want journalism, you want propaganda — Jon Collins (@JonSCollins) June…
by Bob Collins

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Twitter fight ends with an old-school solution

Twitter fight ends with an old-school solution

It had all the makings of a typical Twitter fight that solves nothing, two people in an us-against-them world exercising their fingers. But something unique happened in the confrontation between music producer Erick Anderson (Afrokeys) and Sean Tillmann, known as Har Mar Superstar: they worked it out.
by Bob Collins

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When art is all business, passion takes a back seat

One of the greatest festival choruses in the country -- the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which performs with the Boston Symphony -- is in an uproar after a new boss required them to reaudition for their jobs and has purged dozens in what members are calling 'a bloodbath.'
by Bob Collins

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Lesbian told not to bother applying for Rochester Catholic school coaching job

Katie Erbe-Shea, one of Minnesota's best high school basketball players back in the day, will not be getting the head coaching job at Lourdes High School, the Catholic high school in Rochester.
by Bob Collins

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