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Bringing it all Back Home; an Interview with Joe Schmidbauer

April 12, 2011

Tags: Joe Schmidbauer, reporting, women's rights

The author happily standing between editors Sarah Knight and Joe Schmidbauer
Last month my first editor Joe Schmidbauer came to visit for the launch of So Much Pretty. I began writing for Joe when I was 23, covering environmental issues for a community newspaper. I spent nearly every morning of my life for four years sitting in his kitchen engaged in the kind of critical analysis I’d missed by not going to college, and then (more…)

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The Slow News Day

April 5, 2011

Tags: stolen pig, reporting

I covered a wide variety of stories when I was a reporter, but one of my favorites was a story about a stolen pig.

I started my day as usual by going to the state police headquarters in a town with a population of six thousand, called Homer, where I would read the blotter and drink coffee. Stories generally involved (more…)

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