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Print
And Digital Writing and Editing Samples
2018-2019 News Writing for
(online magazine)
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Sterile
Instrument Shortages (EtO Ban)
Studies
Question Hip Implant
Ochsner
Cuts Knee Surgery Costs
FDA Recalls Ketorolac
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FDA Questions Stem Cell Treatments
Prolonged
Opioid Use Issues
What To Expect In New Opioid Law
FDA: New Tests For Nitinol
Implants
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Business Journalism
Award-Winning Articles
Between 1990 and 1998, my news
team at the newsletter Inside
Healthcare Computing
won awards five times in the Newsletter Publishers Foundation
Journalism Awards. I wrote and edited the first three of
these
pieces, and co-wrote and copy-edited the final two.
The
articles below are two of those five award-winners.
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Back
in 1996, few people knew how to build a website.
Consultants were
telling businesses that it would cost $300,000 for a
content site and up to $3 million for an e-commerce site.
I
built a
website -- a content site with a searchable database of
back issues, a marketing site, and an ecommerce site that took
subscription orders.
My training for this sort of work? Literally none. I had
never
taken a computer course of any kind, much less on how to build a website. I learned by doing it.
I launched the site in December 1996, and wrote this
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The
leading blood bank software used by hospitals was subjected to a Food
and Drug Administration recall. I broke the story
on
the defects of
the software nearly two years before the recall. I wrote the 1993 story
and edited and co-wrote the 1995 story on the recall.
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Copy
Editing And Page Layout Examples
I have three years' experience copy editing for a daily
newspaper
and the Associated
Press, but I never saved samples. I can photograph and
provide samples of my page layouts for a daily newspaper from
the
pre-digital era upon request.
Here
are samples of my copy editing and page layouts using Adobe
Pagemaker and InDesign. Please keep in mind that departures
from AP style in
these samples were dictated by the business newsletter writing style of
the publication.
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Click on the links below;
the image isn't clickable
Inside Healthcare Computing,
6/14/2004
Inside Healthcare Computing,
1/12/04
Blood bank software --
award-winning article
Two newsletter issues including
"How to Build A Website, 1997" -- an award-winning two-part series
Be That One In A Hundred, Copyright Chapter (see cover below)
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Freelance
Writing Samples:
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"Sweating
For Status"
Freelance
Magazine Article
This
was an article I wrote about why
people work out, based on my
observations and listening to people talk at an exercise
facility in the suburbs of Chicago.
I sold it to the
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"PCs
in Group Practice"
Freelance
Magazine Article
This article may seem quaint now, but in 1989, it was a
look forward into the future
of information technology in
physicians'
offices.
It
was written for physicians who didn't
use computers back then.
I wrote it for
a trade magazine for physician group
practices.
Most of its forecasting has come true.
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An Official Government
Document:
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The "Superfund" Report:
Turning A Complex Subject Into A Cogent And Legally Persuasive
Commentary
In
1979-80, I was a member of the U.S. Senate staff group that wrote the Senate's
version of the so-called "Superfund" law to deal with
toxic chemical dump sites and spills.
The Senate version of
the Superfund bill was
called "The Environmental Emergency Response Act."
A
lengthy official Senate report accompanied the bill. The
first
section of this report (the "General Statement") explained the
rationale for the bill. This
General Statement began as a group effort. Different
staff
members wrote
pieces, which overlapped each other.
I was tasked with turning
these pieces into a coherent whole, writing and editing the
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23-page General Statement copied here. |
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Most Recent Book (2017):
Writing, Copy Editing, Proofreading, Cover Design:
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This
is a book I wrote, edited, proofread, and published on Amazon
in October,
2017 in print and digital editions. The cover design is mine, using
licensed Adobe images.
I did the page layout in WordPerfect and the Sigil Epub editor and used
the Amazon online tools to create the Kindle version.
Its target market is aspiring screenwriters.
It is no longer for sale on Amazon or in bookstores.
Click to read an excerpt, the chapter on copyrights.
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Newspaper and Associated Press Writing Samples: |
"We've
Got To Flag A Helicopter!" News Feature
When I was a newspaper reporter,
a
relative of mine was a hurricane flood victim. I drove to the
flood area to pick him up.
On the way back, he told this story.
This is just a simple, short news feature, but I
like the way the quotes
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Three
Associated Press Stories:
(all
in one file)
1972
Chicago Cicada Invasion
Parents Mistake Dead Girl For Theirs
Michele Clark |
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In-Depth Report On a
Hot Topic In
Healthcare Information
Technology
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Computerized Physician
Order Entry
In Health Care
Settings:
It
is routine
now for physicians in hospitals and clinics to enter patient
notes and orders in computer systems. We easily
forget that
back in the 1990s and early 2000s, this was a hot and divisive
topic.
I
wrote and copy-edited this report for hospital information
technology
executives.
It was researched by a three-person team.
Also, I did the page layout of the print version in Adobe InDesign and
the HTML version using an old HTML editor called HotMetal.
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