Stephanie Schaefer

Lois Lane Isn’t Dead, She’s Reinvented: How Journalists Can Adapt to the Changing News Sphere

How Journalists Can Adapt to the Changing News Sphere

“When I went here, all I wanted to be—I mean from the time I was 13 years old and saw Lois Lane on television—I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.” This is a quote from Nora Ephron when she received an Alumnae Achievement Award from her alma mater Wellesley College in 2006. Ephron came to […]

Lessons From Ben Affleck: How to Recreate Your Brand Image, Find a Niche, and More

How to Recreate Your Brand Image, Find Your Niche, and Other Lessons Learned From Ben Affleck

The year is 1998. Two fresh-faced Boston boys giddily accept their Oscars for Best Original Screenplay. Affleck is the class valedictorian, standing at the podium with wide-eyed ambition. Overnight, he becomes the new golden boy. Not only the kind of All-American who girls want to poster on their walls, but also the kind of artist […]

Is it Too Late to Call it Pinsanity?

About a month ago, I was introduced to Pinterest.com, the smorgasbord site that allows users to “pin” their favorite images. The typical post (or “pin”) ranges from Martha Stewart-esque recipes, to witty quotes, to pictures of fuzzy animals dressed up in mini outfits, sitting in baskets atop clouds raining sparkles. Okay, maybe the last example […]

Why Shakespeare’s Tweets are Better Than Yours

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“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either,” said poet, Robert Graves. As an English major with a concentration in (you guessed it) writing poetry-I wrote, analyzed, and interpreted-all while wondering where my liberal arts degree would take me. Inundated with similes, allegories, symbols, and allusion, I learned how to […]