Category: Reporting

A passage to Ellis Island

Writing assignment No. 2 for my Seminar in Journalism as Literature class entailed the following: Write a brief piece that recreates an event (see the [...]
Sketch based on “When a Man Falls…” by Stephen Crane

I had an assignment a few weeks back in Seminar in Journalism as Literature with Dr. Ronald Rodgers in which each person in our class [...]
My year at The Merciad in review

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me [...]

On assignment: District 10 Class AAAA baseball title game

I covered Sunday afternoon’s District 10 Class AAAA baseball championship at Ainsworth. It was likely one of my final assignments for the Erie Times-News, the [...]
Those last six months

As mentioned in my previous post, there wasn’t much happening here during the past five months. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t cranking out a [...]
Rebranded, redesigned, relaunched

Everything had become a little stale. At this website’s previous incarnation, I can’t say I was ever really thrilled with the design. It worked for [...]