
ForeignCorrespondent is a wide-ranging blog that examines subjects that impact our lives, such as the news media, social issues, politics, international affairs, education, and the inspirational worlds of fiction and non-fiction literature.
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A while back, I published a post about a poll that asked the question: “Who writes better? Men or Women?”
What a hazardous, if not lethal, question.
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I am the author of the multi-award-winning Finding Billy Battles trilogy, former foreign correspondent, Prof. & Dean Emeritus of journalism at the U of Illinois
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