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Chasing the weather.

September 28th, 2009 | RI, history, images | No comments

A quick and torrential rain just fell through my office window drenching the curtains. In a second floor apartment, one doesn’t worry too much about flash floods. Terrible flooding in Manila after tropical storm Ketsana raged for nine hours. Areas under 20 feet of water. Storm namers need to retire the letter ‘K’ for a [...]

“There aren’t any jobs in the newspaper industry.”

April 27th, 2009 | RI, happy nugget, layoffs/cuts/buyouts, projects | 1 comment

Hurray Scott Kingsley for stating the fact and making my Monday a little brighter. A girl can get a complex after six months in job search mode doesn’t bring in any offers. File under misery loves company. I like when media colleagues express my reality - no jobs people, no jobs. Validation. Corroboration. Substantiation. Kingsley [...]

Happy Nugget Monday = Rhode Island

February 9th, 2009 | RI, happy nugget, web | No comments

No resident of Rhode Island is more than a 30 minute drive from the water’s edge. Could explain the overwhelming amount of wedding photographers in the state. Ocean, sand, sun screams for a beachfront wedding. Four brave photojournalists make Rhode Island, our region 1 talent search location, their base. Bucking the trend, they are covering [...]

See Dan Habib’s new film

October 20th, 2008 | RI, events, multimedia, projects | No comments

Dan Habib, a Concord Monitor alum and now a filmmaker in residence at the University of New Hampshire, will be at a free screening for his new documentary called Including Samuel at Brown University the day before elections in November (11/3). Movie explores the social and educational inclusion of people with disabilities. The tagline on [...]