Latest posts
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Newsworthy and Sensational Are Not the Same Thing
Dr. Mélodie BOUEYA’s health could have been the headline. Alliance explains why he chose the quieter, more newsworthy angle instead.
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A News Story Still Has a Person Inside It
A journalism interview about a colleague’s health and childhood becomes a lesson in compassion: how to write true, difficult details without reducing a person to their hardest moment.
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Interviewing Changed the Way I Write About People
A 30-minute interview about leadership turned, unexpectedly, into a lesson about saving money — and about listening for answers that arrive somewhere other than where they were expected.
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Feature Writing Gives Me More Room, but That Can Also Be the Problem
News writing forces fast decisions about what matters. Feature writing gives more room — and that freedom turns out to be its own kind of challenge.
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Editing More Than My Writing
A week of heavy editing in COMM 310 got Alliance thinking about correcting small things in life, one sentence and one moment at a time.
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Fifteen Headlines for One Story
Writing fifteen headlines for one press release turned out to be an exercise in deciding what the story is actually about.
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What I Would Change About My Social Media Posts
Introducing the same video on Facebook and LinkedIn taught me that publishing on a platform and writing for it are not the same thing.
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What I Want My Social Media to Be Useful For
Doctrine and Covenants 4 got me thinking about what actually counts as useful work when so much of it now happens through a phone.
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The Part of Video Editing Nobody Sees
Finishing a two-minute video for COMM 310 took far longer than two minutes, mostly because of decisions nobody watching will ever notice.
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I Still Learn While I Teach
Teaching computer skills means admitting sometimes that I don’t have the answer right away, and that has turned out to be useful.