Queenkv’s Brainpickings

Today – I’m trying to figure out how to say ‘Hello’, ‘Thank You’ and ‘Good-bye’ in Russian. Next month – I will step up to the lecture podium and teach a journalism class in St. Petersburg. One of my co-workers said she didn’t understand why I would need a passport and visa to teach in [...]

Guest Blog by Sara O! Hi. Sara O. here. I’m hijacking Kris’s blog to supplement the video that Andrea shot endorsing Kris for the really Goode job. See this? It’s a post card with a date stamp of Oct. 31, 2004. It was sent to me in the Czech Republic from England by Kris, husband [...]

Over the weekend, I sent in my resume for Murphy-Goode’sWine Country Lifestyle Correspondent position. Exciting! So, you’ve seen why I think I’d rock this dream job. Now, I want to share some of my professional and personal references for this job in Sonoma County. This is from Andrea James in Seattle, Washington. We graduated from [...]

So many lovely memories of Paris floated back for me when I saw this shot of the President Obama and Malia inside the Pompidou Centre. P060709PS-0023, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream. This is a charming shot. I hope Malia and her sister treasures their memories of this family trip in Europe. Our [...]

Just in case that Haas job doesn’t work out…. It’s an old joke between my hubby and me. It goes back to our first months of dating. At that time, I was also on my first months at Haas. UC Berkeley classified me as being “on probation.” That joke came up anytime I felt insecure [...]

Right now, I’m savoring the first hours of my weekend. I slept in until 4 A.M. I did some yoga, brewed coffee, caught up with high school friends on Facebook, answered e-mail and caught up on my guilty pleasure. I feel blessed. Work moved me off the weekend morning shifts to a Monday thru Friday [...]

That’s something one of my co-workers would ask as he’s writing for his show and working out his lead story for the top of his A Block (the first segment of his newscast). Sometimes we’d wonder what one of the greatest journalists in American history would say about some of the things that end up [...]

I found this link on Romensko’s blog: NU still negotiating to open campus in Qatar – Campus. There are some interesting changes underway at my alma mater. I happen like the idea of expanding the journalism program to the Middle East. The students would gain so much insight and experience in that part of the [...]

Last night, Ted Koppel made a cameo on the Daily Show. The dude rules and I was thrilled to visit the Nightline studios during my last quarter for Medill. It’s always charming to see a journalism giant like Koppel express himself so bluntly. Check out this clip! The man behind Praire Home Companion has some [...]

A Medill alum posted this link to an LA Times business story: Outsourcing the News: Hiring reporters in India to cover Pasadena, CA.” When is local journalism not really local? When it’s about Pasadena and written by someone in India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend [...]