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Entries for July, 2011 in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
As the cast of "High School Musical" sang the big finale Friday night, you could feel the energy and joy flowing through the Welder Center. Perhaps it helped that we sat next to the proud grandparents of Troy Bolton (aka ...
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Should a reporter smoke pot with a source to get a story?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
I wasn't expecting this question to come up when Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten spoke at last weekend's Mayborn literary nonfiction conference in Grapevine. Weingarten is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing. His anthology, "The ...
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How much do you know about Gulf Bend Center?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Don Polzin, executive director of Gulf Bend Center, sent a video to us this week that was shown during the annual convention of the Texas Council of Community Centers recently in Houston. I was honored to accept the Frank M. ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Frank Deford and the other magical writers at Sports Illustrated inspired me to be a sportswriter. By college, I had switched to news, but Deford's talk Saturday at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference took me back to my first love. ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Just back from a family vacation in Colorado, we had hoped to bring back some of the cool and rainy weather. No such luck. Actually, on our first day in Colorado, the high temperature was a couple of degrees more ...