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Young, Successful Journalists Tell ONA Sleep is Overrated
Four journalists whose careers have taken off fast tell on Online News Association audience about the traits and tactics that launched them.
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Scholar Charles Pulliam: Telling a Tornado Tale in Joplin
Sirens still sounded constantly when I arrived. Ambulances and other emergency vehicles sped past and over down power lines and tree branches. Numb to the noise, survivors sifting what was left of their homes didn’t even give the piercing sounds a second thought.
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Three Camera Apps for the iPhone 4 (and iPod Touch 4)
I began my journalism career as a photojournalist in 1989, shooting black and white film. Each day I shot and processed rolls of Kodak’s famed Tri-X. I couldn’t imagine photography getting any better than that…and then it did.
In 1999 I got hold of my first digital camera and never looked back. I currently shoot with [...] -
Joplin Disaster Reported on Twitter, Organized on Storify
A few days ago Diversity Institute Visiting Scholar, Charles Pulliam came to my office and said, “I’m going to Joplin to cover the disaster.”
Initiative has never been a problem for Pulliam, an alum of several Freedom Forum Diversity Institute programs including the Chips Quinn Scholars (2008) and the American Indian Journalism Institute.
Pulliam left Nashville, headed [...]