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My latest project is a website called fiftyshift.com, an online community for women over age 40.
I occasionally write public policy stories for CommonWealth, a quarterly magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, a Boston-based thinktank. And I write about social media marketing and other topics for the web portal of a major technology company.
At UMass, I'm teaching the next generation of critical thinkers how to report and write with courage and clarity, and increasingly, we’re teaching multimedia reporting. My courses include introductory newswriting and reporting, magazine writing, and public policy journalism, as well as writing for the web.
I also serve as internship coordinator and as an informal career counselor for journalism students, and have developed two new courses for freshmen and graduating seniors.
This fall I will launch a new course called The Entrepreneurial Journalist, which will (hopefully) provide students with the tools and savvy to navigate through the next few decades of change in the media world. Wish me luck!
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 And did I mention the fact that my family keeps a remarkably entertaining flock of chickens? The longer I live with chickens, the more I think everyone should have a few around.
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