The Columbia Journalism Review highlighted my story in their ongoing coverage of health care reform. Trudy Lieberman writes: “Kudos to Jeremy Smerd, a health care reporter for the business publication Workforce Magazine, for an illuminating piece about a little-mentioned consequence of the Massachusetts reform law. Smerd’s piece stands out from most of today’s health care [...]
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Reaction from Columbia Journalism Review
Posted in Blog on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Introducing: The City College Reporter
Posted in Blog on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The City College Reporter is the online newspaper published by undergraduate journalism students at the City College of New York. The stories published here are all the original reporting and writing of students in the Reporting and Writing II class. I taught the class as an adjunct professor. The goal of the class is to [...]
Pittsburgh in Words: the reviews are in
Posted in Blog, Creative Nonfiction on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wondering whether to buy the anthology of original stories from the journal Creative Nonfiction? Here are some reviews of the compilation Pittsburgh in Words, which includes a story of mine, M. Berger Co. The book launch in Pittsburgh in October gave me my first experience behind a lectern reading aloud the words I had only [...]
Pittsburgh in Words
Posted in Blog, Creative Nonfiction on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Steel. Coal. And an accent that is the aural equivalent of french fries on salad. Welcome to Pittsburgh, PA, and the seven stories that make up the latest production from the journal Creative Nonfiction. Pittsburgh in Words, which was published last week, is a tribute to the 250th anniversary of the city, where, yes, you can get french [...]
The New York Sun Sets
Posted in Blog, tagged The New York Sun on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Sun, the daily newspaper where I worked as a transit reporter, is ceasing operations effective today, September 30, 2008, the Sun reports. Like many New York institutions that have gone under of late, the paper will be missed. It was poorly run but well edited. And it offered the opportunity for fledgling [...]
