Writing Samples
Writing samples by Mid-South journalist Billy Suratt, based in Southern Kentucky. General and breaking news writing, sports and feature story writing and more.
Tag: Journalism
Ethics breach disqualifies 2014 World Press Photo entries
More than nine percent of 2014 World Press Photo finalists were disqualified for digital manipulation ruled outside the bounds of ethical photojournalism, the New York Times reports.
The Louisville Courier-Journal: Then and Now
When Louisville’s Bingham family owned The Courier-Journal, they might continue paying an employee after they died. Gannett? Not so much.
How big is Kentucky’s 2014 Senate race? Big enough for McClatchy to hire an extra reporter
How big is Kentucky’s 2014 U.S. Senate race expected to be? Big enough for McClatchy’s Lexington Herald-Leader to hire another reporter, that’s how big.
Final downhold: Trailblazing ex-UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas dead at 92
Some have quipped Helen Thomas is probably now landing an exclusive interview with God. I pray my former UPI colleague doesn’t run into any access problems.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gasser
Chattanooga State PR flap illustrates why euthanasia should only be used as a last resort in controlling Canada goose population problems.
Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer seeking full-time education reporter
A rare opportunity — not because it’s a newspaper hiring instead of firing, but because the Messenger-Inquirer staff has little turnover.
Paul B. Hayes, founding editor of The Adair Progress newspaper, dead at 59
It’s been said that good news travels fast, but bad news travels faster. As I’m reminded today, that’s not always the case.
A protocol lapse of nucular proportion
President George W. Bush’s snubbing of UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas, dame of the Washington press corps, is not cool.
