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Deidre Pike
Writing lecturer
Web site content generator
Office:
RSJ 215B
Phone:
775-784-4702
E-mail:
deidre@unr.nevada.edu
Teaching experience:
• Instructor, Core Writing Program, University of Nevada, Reno
• Writing Lecturer, Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
Professional experience
• Reporter & section editor, Reno Gazette-Journal
• Editor, Reno News & Review
• Contributor, Las Vegas City Life, Tucson Weekly, Sacramento News & Review
• Columnist, Reno News & Review
Links
• Reno News & Review
• Sacramento News & Review
• Las Vegas City Life
• Tucson Weekly
• Personal blog
Education
• Ph.D., in progress, Literature & Environment, University of Nevada, Reno
• M.A. English, University of Nevada, Reno
• B.A. Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
Courses taught
• Jour 101 Critical Analysis of Mass Media
• Jour 418/618 Magazine Writing
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I teach for selfish reasons, mostly. I crave knowledge and there’s no better way to self-educate than to teach. It’s also endlessly entertaining.
• Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. (Thomas Paine)
• Take pleasure in the details … a Quarter Pounder with cheese, those are good. (Troy in Reality Bites)
• Our life is frittered away by detail. (Thoreau)
• If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough. (Citizen Kane)
• Freedom costs a buck o’ five. (Team America: World Police)
• All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. (Leo Tolstoy)
• Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. (Hunter S. Thompson)
• The world is a spiritual vessel which cannot be controlled. (Tao de Ching)
• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. (Isak Dinesen)
• So it goes. (Kurt Vonnegut)
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