My Personal Social Media Policy

After weeks of thought, I have settled on the following social media policy:

I will do my best to be polite and productive while using social media, but I can’t promise anything.

Thank you for reading.

OK, Dan, Fine.

Dan Lehr, a producer at Newschannel 9 and my former internship supervisor at the station, gently chided me via Twitter recently that while he would be glad to add my blog to the blogroll on his (very awesome) “Public Interest” blog, I needed to post more often.

While most of my online time as of late has been spent firing off one-liners on Twitter, I will do my best to ramp up my contributions here. I mean, this site is named after me. If I don’t do it, who will?

Stay tuned…

Remembering Hal Levy

It’s only fitting that I devote the first real post on my new blog to the man who gave me my start…

In 1992, while I was still in high school, my journalism teacher, Frank Barron, (half) joked in class that he fully expected one day to see my byline in USA Today. I can’t quite remember why he said that—and, no, I’ve never written for USA Today—but whatever I did that day inspired Mr. Barron to call Hal Levy, executive sports editor of the Shore Line Times, and ask him to give me a job.

The next morning, I walked into Hal’s office like a goon.