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pat walters
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Pat is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines, including The St. Petersburg Times and The New York Times Magazine.
He also writes for grist.org, produces radio stories for WKNO-FM and does reporting for national magazines like Rolling Stone, AARP The Magazine, Fast Company, On Earth and CJR.
Pat recently spent a year on a fellowship at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, writing, editing and planning a redesign for Poynter Online. This summer he will co-direct the reporting and writing component of the Institute's nationally recognized "boot camp" for recent college journalism graduates.
He now lives in Memphis, where he's working on an MFA in creative nonfiction writing. You can read a few of his stories here, and download a PDF of his resume here.
If you have a question, or you just want to chat, you can e-mail him via google mail.
kelley benham new orleans police cheif story.
awp panel: accepted!
there are few things i’ve run into that have impressed and amazed me more than the 826 writing workshops. check out this recent npr piece. only thing it’s missing is a memphis chapter …
not sure i agree with the headline, but one line sure did make me chuckle. selling ap content to newspapers is “a bit like selling drugs to late-stage cancer patients.” jeez.
check out jott.com. http://tinyurl.com/5frujs
hard times in the media world. number nine: “the end of objectivity.”
via journerdism
news people are hot on google maps lately. it’s a killer (and easy) way to help folks see information geographically. but how much of this work is being done by non-news people? how about the government. new york state just passed a law to fund a cancer map. wonder if it will be open source. check it out.
via grist
excellent (and big) photo blog from the boston globe.
estee nation t-shirt company. they make vintage tees for real businesses. very cool idea. i’m behind the curve on this one. found it in the nyt mag this week.
i have an interview with brendan koerner up on the nbcc blog. he’s an excellent magazine journalist who writes for slate and wired. we talked about his new book, now the hell will start. check it out.
check out hulu.com.
the atlantic: this story is a little depressing, especially if you live in memphis - which i do - or if you’re from any of the other hyper-violent, mid-sized cities it mentions - which i am; see reading, p.a.
here are some numbers. the world’s obese eat $20 billion too much food each year. the world’s hungry need $30 billion worth of food each year. if you’re overweight, stop eating so much and close the gap. also: in 2006 the world spent about $1.2 trillion on arms. let’s cut back on that, too.
the new iphone is coming, and according to slate, it’s going to take out the gps industry. this is going to be huge. i can’t wait until my verizon contract ends …