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Learn how to take great photos

Posted in Photography, Reader contributions, Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009 Comments

The Salem News is offering a free seminar later this month on taking great photographs.
The seminar is geared toward beginning- and intermediate-level amateur photographers who want to learn how to take better candid photographs and shoot under different conditions — outside in the snow or on the water, or sporting events, cookouts, dance recitals.
The session [...]

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Are you in your office pool?

Posted in Reader contributions, Sports on Mar 16th, 2009 Comments

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament kicks off Wednesday with a play-in game between Alabama State and Morehead State.
Will you be in your office pool? Are you playing more brackets in the hopes of a big payoff, or are you taking a pass this year and putting the money toward something else?
Reporter Matt Roy is working [...]

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How to get your news in the paper

Posted in Reader contributions on Mar 8th, 2009 Comments

The Salem News is inviting the public to attend a free workshop to learn “How to Get Your News into the Newspaper.”
Led by Publisher Karen Andreas and yours truly, the session will offer insight and tips for writing effective press releases, pitching stories to reporters and editors, and general tips for working with the newspaper [...]

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Salem News readers vs. the Academy

Posted in Reader contributions, polls on Feb 23rd, 2009 Comments

We had good response to our Oscar polls this weekend, so we thought it might be interesting to compare your picks with the actual winners:
Best Supporting Actress
Your winner, with 39.33 percent of the vote: Marissa Tomei, The Wrestler
Oscar’s winner:  Penelope Cruz, Vicki Christina Barcelona

Best Supporting Actor
Your winner, with 51.49 percent of the vote, Heath Ledger, [...]

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In search of Boston-bound runners

Posted in Blogs, Reader contributions, Salem News blogs on Feb 14th, 2009 Comments

Every year, hundreds of North Shore runners train for and compete in the Boston Marathon.
Many of these athletes make the field by meeting strict qualifying times in other marathons. Many more, however, earn their spot by raising money for a good cause.
Each spring we get dozens of requests for publicity from these runners who — [...]

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Where’s my comment?

Posted in Comments, Reader contributions, Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2008 Comments

When we last discussed comments, The Salem News had just instituted a new policy aimed at cutting down on the number of abusive posts on our Web site.
The new policy asks users to register in order to see their comments added to the bottom of stories at once. Unregistered users can still comment but have [...]

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This week’s column

Posted in Peabody, Photography, Reader contributions, Uncategorized, Video on Jun 3rd, 2008 Comments

This week’s column focuses on last week’s Peabody fire, and how the paper is using new tools to report the news…

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Picture of the day

Posted in Photography, Reader contributions, Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2008 Comments

I hope you who saw the excellent news photo on Page 2 of today’s paper (“Truck catches fire in front of court”).
The photo, which captured a car fire in front of the Salem District Court, was the work of alert Salem News reader Greg Nowak, who works in the building across the street. The photo [...]

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