This blog was originally created in February 2008 as a course requirement for a Master’s of Arts in Communications from The Johns Hopkins University. It’s birth name was “No newsprint here” because, after undergraduate training and a career in newspaper journalism, I wanted to understand how the Web and its tools have forever altered how we communicate and conversate.
In the spring of 2010, this blog was revived in an effort to help me as a wayward graduate student struggling to write a thesis. I plan to document the journey of my thesis and update my family on my progress. I hope that you will encourage me in this effort by reading the blog and discussing my progress and your thoughts on my thesis topic with me.
If I have not successfully defended a thesis by the spring of 2011, I will forfeit my degree.
Professionally, I spent nearly a decade as a working journalist, for publications including The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun, and The St. Petersburg Times. In 2005, I left full-time journalism to work in philanthropy, an experience richer and more rewarding than I ever expected. While pursuing this degree, I continue to write as a freelance journalist for local and national publications.
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hey, are you only listing more glamourous ports of call? didn’t i see your byline in the inquirer?
on to more serious issues:
how do i collect some of this phila-nthropy? if those bucks were intended for some other town, wouldn’t it be called baltonthropy or washinthropy?
hi sam! thrilled you found norakoch.com, and called me out for that oversight.
my longest stint at one paper was in the South Jersey bureau of The Philadelphia Inquirer, from October 2001-January 2004. i had a few bylines, but what i remember the most are the good pals i still have.