by Doug Thompson | Dec 8, 2014 | Musings
An aspiring photojournalist in a college class I speak to off and on each year didn’t look happy after class recently. She said she was considering switching majors. “I want to be a news photographer at a time when news photography appears to be on its way...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 23, 2014 | Musings
Threats, criticisms and personal attacks go with the territory when you cover news. When a shooter killed John Lennon many years ago, I wrote about the public outcry over his murder and wondered in print if it was way too much fretting over the death of a former pop...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 6, 2011 | Featured, FUBAR, Musings
Recently, I’ve come under fire for the large number of misspellings, typographical errors and grammatical mistakes on the pages of this web site. For a long-time journalist who once typed 125 words a minutes, living in a world where the typing speed is down to...
