Post-mortem: How my family reacted to frequent interruptions of college life
Ah, the sweet sound of buyer’s remorse. When the thrill and glow of cash flowing toward a new purchase fades
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Karl Hille lived and breathed local news beat reporting in Greenbelt and the Baltimore/Washington region for more than 12 years until the 2007 recession. While learning and improving the online side of the Baltimore Examiner operations, his platform dropped out from under his feet, then his rebound job at a regional business news magazine downsized him three months later. Now, working for the “dark side” – public communications work by day for the awesome government agency – he is going back to school to find the critical intersection of news, investigation, and the Internet – and re-learning how to be a student while he’s the only guy on campus sporting a fedora.
Author: Karl B. Hille
Training to be the carnival barker in the playground of the rich?
The semester is over, the final project burn is wearing through and I’m taking a good hard look at where
Read moreI’m not an ‘amazing’ student: You can fact-check that
When your grade is hanging by a 20-something thread. I get that I’m not the worlds’ most amazing student. I
Read moreNow I know why reporters can be annoying
Two former reporters walk into a greasy spoon … Okay that was supposed to have a punchline, but I got
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Talbot County
Originally assigned to handle data-mining and map visualization, I got assigned the Talbot county story late – fact checking assignments,
Read moreDay one in Baltimore
We took an “income stratification tour” of Baltimore with a crash-course history from the grant to Lord Baltimore, through the
Read moreThe Greenbelt angle
Too bad I can’t interview myself. I’m living our target family life – single income, three children, expensive part of
Read moreTalbot County weathers the Great Recession
Talbot County, in the middle of the Eastern Shore, occupies the economic middle as when it comes to getting through tough,
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