Best-selling author Robert Liparulo shares his writing secrets and tips for literary success.
Serving Meals and Blessings to Homeless (Profile: Vienna Connection)
The minivan comes to a stop in one of the few remaining parking spaces outside the Lamb Center in Fairfax. Seatbelts pop and side doors roll open as a handful of members from Antioch Christian Church climb out of the gray-green vehicle to help unload the back.
Burke Community’s ‘Living Room’ Relocating in July (Burke Connection)
According to Daskalakis, customers drove to Hopsfrog to be together during the fateful Tuesday on Sept. 11, 2001 when hijacked airplanes slammed into the side of the World Trade Center.
Animal Hospital Holds “Barke” Sale in Fairfax for Dogs and Kids (Springfield Connection)
The VCA Animal Hospital hosted a fund-raising “barke” sale on May 26 via the Canines-N-Kids Foundation. The foundation hopes to use the donations to further cancer research for children by studying cancer diseases in canines.
Fountains Publication Promotional Video
Fire Writing: The Hobby of Pyrography (Feat. Josiah Vogel)
Organizations turn to online videos to further reach their audience (Feature Story)
For my journalism class this semester, we had to write what our teacher called a “packet project.” A packet is a collection of different news stories on one broad topic. I chose my topic to focus on the impact of online videos, which was both fun and challenging. We had to write a feature story, profile, and an editorial, which took us about half a semester. This is the first of the packet stories. For my feature I had the opportunity to interview Rob Bluey of the Heritage Foundation‘s Daily Signal. Probably the best thing that’s come out of this project isn’t the paper or grade itself, but that I scored an internship with Mr. Bluey for this summer after the interview. At the beginning of the semester, I applied for Heritage’s Young Leaders Program (a highly competitive internship position that selected forty college students out of 470 applicants). After contacting Mr. Bluey for an interview request, I received word that he would be happy to help me with the project, but also wondered if I’d let him interview me. By the end of the interview, he sent me an official request to join the team. For my profile story, click here. For my editorial story, … Read More