CynthiaParkhill

From time to time, I receive questions about effectively sending items to newspapers. (I worked several years as an editor for a northern Ca...

Here’s a potentially exciting development in the realm of poetry in Sonoma County classrooms: California Poets in the Schools , a statewi...

An editor’s markup of a conservative media pundit’s manuscript — now part of a lawsuit’s documents — draws attention to the craft of editin...

First weekend in a new apartment in Santa Rosa, Calif., and freelance work as an editor brought me to Sonoma County Library. I often make us...

I have significant news to share with network contacts. My family is in the process of relocating to Sonoma County, Calif., and today I subm...

Steve Buttry My condolences to the family of Steve Buttry, who died Feb. 19 of pancreatic cancer at age 62 . I met Steve when I worked i...

A few months ago, I volunteered to submit “Religion Briefs” each week for my church to the local newspaper. Doing so made sense, because it ...

My debut blog post for Body Support Systems, Inc. went live on its website today. The post highlights an appearance by owner/founder Tom Owe...

My part-time work for a local church includes posts to social media, “MailChimp” email campaigns and updates to the church blog. The spirit ...

Setting aside the hyperbole of the headline (with media coverage by the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News, ...

Strega Nona’s magic pot with spaghetti spilling out of it I work as both web editor for the Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellows...

At Huffington Post, Deborah Plummer examines the impact of an editor upon the radically different portrayal of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’...

A new website went live this morning for Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship​ . For the past few weeks, I’ve been working as its ...

Among professional developments this week, I signed a letter of agreement to work as web editor for the Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist ...

Learning to evaluate websites for credibility has been an ongoing subject for concern, revisited this week in response to an assignment for ...

With Samantha Cole highlighting the “ Hidden Startup Resources at Your Local Library ,” it seems timely to express my appreciation for the p...

Detail from an  infographic by TurnItIn.com: The degree on a scale of 0 to 10 to which types of plagiarism are considered problematic In...

At Mediaite.com, writer Tommy Christopher calls for a complete retraction and discipline for everyone involved in a CBS This Morning repor...

At ALA Think Tank , an open Facebook group, a member asked about the pros and cons of using Paper.li , a “custom newspaper” publishing sit...

Shannon Des Roches Rosa, writing at BlogHer.com about autism in the media , urges journalists to “work harder, find better sources, seek...