April 2010

Most people don’t know that Oregon lost a journalistic treasure last week

by Joe Wilson April 18, 2010

This is a story about my friend and colleague Vera Erickson who died last week. She was an inspiration to most people she met, but even more so to journalists and female journalists especially. Oregon’s oldest journalist dies at 92 Published April 16, 2010 in the Molalla Pioneer By Bethany Monroe Vera Erickson, Oregon’s oldest [...]

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Have recorder (and mics) … will report

Radio reporting by Joe Wilson April 10, 2010

Joe’s been a newspaper reporter and editor his entire life. Lately Joe’s been studying radio/audio journalism with some help from those in the industry.

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This would almost be too much to bear for the United States of America

Polish President Lech Kaczynski by Joe Wilson April 10, 2010

The news that Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, was so big that it was hard to fully grasp at first.

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