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Media Literacy 101: Evaluating Sources for Bias

Sarah White December 20, 2016 Writing and BloggingLeave a comment

There’s a lot that goes into evaluating sources for bias — both the source of a news story and the sources quoted or cited in that story — but I’m going to cover what I can here in this media literacy 101 overview. What is Bias? Bias means that the …

Media Literacy 101: Communicating with the Media

Sarah White December 6, 2016 Writing and Blogging4 Comments

One of the things that I think is going to be so important in the coming years, regardless of what political views you espouse, is for people to really work hard to stay informed about what is going on, a sort of media literacy 101 on a level a lot …

A To-Do List for Where We Are Now

Sarah White November 18, 2016 Writing and Blogging3 Comments

It’s probably no surprise that I’m disappointed by the election results and have been feeling, like so many others, that I should have done more to prevent what has happened and what is going to be happening. I can’t change the election results, but I can take heart in the …

Get a Full Blogger Education with the Genius Blogger’s Toolkit

Sarah White October 28, 2016 Writing and BloggingOne Comment

I am an affiliate of the Genius Blogger’s Toolkit so I’ll get a little kickback if you buy. But all opinions are my own. I am all about continuing education and learning new things about my craft, my business, my life. When you make your living online you have to …

Waiting for Fall in the South

Sarah White October 18, 2016 Writing and BloggingOne Comment

It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the country can declare it to be fall but we are still sweltering same …

Freelance Coach: Why Saying No is Good

Sarah White October 12, 2016 Writing and BloggingLeave a comment

I used to have a blog called Freelance Coach, where I wrote about the business of being a freelance writer/creative person. I shut it down a long time ago, but I kind of miss it. I think I need to start writing about those subjects again. When I was first …