Tag Archives: journalism

The Life and Times of Life and Times

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Daniel

Class, newspaper and sleep have been dominating the majority of my time recently, and it’s been hard to get up the inspiration to really write anything, blog or fiction. I feel like I’ve hit a point in my short story … Continue reading →

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I Fought the Law and the Law… has Tear Gas and Fire Hoses

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Daniel

So yesterday, in between bites of homemade Mexican food, I learned that there was going to be a protest that night, the latest in a series of public action sparked by the killing of a young Mapuche man by a … Continue reading →

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Blast From the Past: Expositional Journalism and Translation to the Real World

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Daniel

I just found this from an old blog, an attempt over last summer to get something going. I wrote this when I was working at the Sacramento Bee and getting ready to go back to Santa Cruz and return to … Continue reading →

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One Month Reflections: On Power, Journalism and Pool

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Daniel

“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.” Boy, ain’t that the truth. And as I’m pretty sure the great thinker Kareem Abdul-Jabar was trying to say, in our time, when your … Continue reading →

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City in a Valley Surrounded by Mountains… Press?

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Daniel

Attempt 2: Rewriting is really hard, but I’ll do what I can. So even though CVSMP doesn’t have as nice of a ring to it as my old newspaper, it seems I’ve found a place that I like to get … Continue reading →

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