Jim Stovall was a journalism professor for nearly four decades. In this podcast he shares some of the stories that he has learned about writers, journalists, the writing process, and just about anything else that he finds interesting. You can sign up for his weekly newsletter at his website jprof.com.
Jim's latest book is Heads and Tales: Caricatures and Stories about the Famous, the Infamous, and the Just Plain Interesting. That book is available on Amazon.com.
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JPROF - introduction
Jim Stovall is a retired journalism professor who, for most of the last two decades, has operated the JPROF.com (https://jprof.com) website.
The site was originally one of the most popular sites for journalism teachers and students. Today, it retains much of its original content, but it also serves as Jim's blog where he writes about journalists, writers, the writing process, and just about anything or anyone else that he finds interesting. This podcast is the audio version of some of these stories.
You can subscribe to Jim's weekly newsletter at JPROF.com.
His latest book is Heads and Tales: Stories of the Famous, the Infamous, and the Just Plain Interesting (https://bit.ly/headsandtales). You can find it on Amazon at the link in the previous sentence.
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