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Will Travel for Beer
With the boom in small craft breweries, it seems like every small town has their own tasting room stocked with beer brewed fresh out back. State tourism boards have noticed too, and are trying to...
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Summer projects
Sometimes a story evolves between assignment and deadline. That was the case with this piece, written for UNH Manchester’s Campus News. I originally highlighted the long-running small mammal research...
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The Pitch
Pitching stories is not my strength. It’s difficult to find a subject I want to write about, let alone try to find a place for that story to eventually land. As a relationship with an editor develops,...
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It’s a small state
If you stay in the media business long enough in New Hampshire, you’re going to know everyone — reporters, photographers, TV newscasters, columnists, PR flacks, company spokespeople, campaign bloggers...
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What the kids are up to
When I was an undergrad, I took some digital media classes. This was before Web 2.0 and the term “social media” when blogs were confessional, not a means to making money. Hopefully this intro, and...
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Finding the hook
Sometimes a news hook is part of the pitch. Sometimes it’s inserted by an assigning editor. Other times it happens to present itself organically in a seemingly evergreen story. In this piece, it was...
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Where do freelancers find ideas? Sometimes it’s a shot in the dark
I wasn’t covering the UNH Career Fair last October for anyone. There was no story due in the hours that followed and I certainly wasn’t getting paid. So why did I spend 3 hours out of my day and a...
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First ever March Pitch-a-Thon
Is there anything worse than a blind pitch? Whether you’re writing one or getting one, pitches can be a painful process. To new writers, the successful pitch formula is an enigma never to be mastered....
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When something new comes along
Opening night in the gallery at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth Sometimes I’m inspired to write about a subject because I think editors will love the idea, or that it will gain lots of reader interest....
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So you want to be a freelance writer? 5 important tips to get you started
You want to be a freelance writer? It’s cold out there. Being a freelance writer in New Hampshire is a lot different than New York. The pool of editors and publications is small and breaking in...
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