by John G. Self | Nov 25, 2015 | Stories
John is taking a couple of blog days off for the Thanksgiving holidays. His thrice weekly posts will resume on Monday, Nov. 30. Today’s post, Slice of Americana, originally appeared on Feb 8, 2013. Happy Thanksgiving! The news business will always be a part...
by John G. Self | Sep 20, 2013 | Stories
Who inspired you, that person who encouraged you to become the best you could be? Was it a teacher? Was it an early boss? Was it someone you met in a later time of your career? For me it was four people. It began with a rotund journalism teacher with a flattop...
by John G. Self | May 17, 2013 | Stories
It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in front of my Western Union teletype in the police press room, a man in his mid-20s trying to make sense of something that made no sense at all – the death of five children in an apartment fire caused by adult...
by John G. Self | Feb 8, 2013 | Stories
The news business will always be a part of who I am. As a former reporter, I confess that while I do not miss the grind of working for a daily newspaper, slogging through flooded rice fields in the dead of night covering a fatal airplane crash, or moving through a bar...
by John G. Self | Sep 7, 2012 | Stories, Technology
So much for the supposed speed and expanded access of news and information in the digital age. A Monday night fire in a 35-story residential tower in downtown Dallas damaged the building’s power system, plunging part of the adjacent office pavilion where the fire...
