At restaurants and spontaneously arranged hotel parties around town, journalists spooked one another with biochemical ghost stories.
After a short, post-college stint as a small-town journalist, I entered the physics Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The subsequent concerts that followed at 9 (free) and 10 (paid) took place in the Hall's lobby which had been turned very convincingly into a lounge, complete with a bar -- one that an out-of-town journalist, musicians and a lot of very cool, young people definitely visited on their way to hit some clubs deep into the night, but hung around and even paid to hear the new sounds.
The siege of Tallahassee by invading hordes of political operatives, high-priced lawyers, out-of-town journalists and out-of-state politicians may be ending soon.
One of the articles described out-of-town journalists' fondness for quoting a Florida International University professor abhorred by conservatives for saying Miami had some characteristics of "a banana republic".
But he apparently possessed a special license to publish such images, because he spent much of his talk denouncing lazy out-of-town journalists who use Detroit's ruins as a convenient recession-year symbol for the end of the American dream.
Thus it was time, last weekend, for Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films to crank up the publicity machine and invite out-of-town journalists to Manhattan for the press junket: reporters are divided into groups and assigned to round tables, where they have 15 minutes to have at the movie stars.
Residents of Boumerdes assailed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika with cries of "assassin" during his visit to the town today, journalists said.
"I sort of liken it to 2006 when people said, 'Why would we need Politico, coverage is so saturated?' " Washington has been a veritable boom town for journalists in the last few years.
There are small-town freelance journalists, like my mother, who carried the torch lit by crusaders into the mainstream by writing about breast cancer for popular magazines; combined, their efforts brought the disease the public attention and research funding it had long been denied.
"[Isis] doesn't want to take over the town," a local journalist was quoted as saying.
