Shen reported for The Baltimore Evening Sun in the late 1980s and then for 17 years was a staff writer for The Washington Post. An award-winning writer on The Post's Metro staff, she covered Maryland state government and the General Assembly, local government, education, crime, environment and social issues. On the Style staff, she helped create and wrote for The Post’s "KidsPost" section, a daily page of news and features for young readers. Since leaving the paper she has been a fellow at the Knight Digital Media Center, at the University of California Berkeley, attending their March 2007 Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop. She was proud to see The Brew mentioned in The New York Times as "a reason for cheer," but moderately embarassed that Times media blogger David Carr also said sites like Brew show "how far journalists will go to avoid getting a real job."
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May 17, 2013
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Obama in Baltimore today, talking jobs
UPDATED – At his stop at a South Baltimore factory this afternoon, President Obama announced a plan to boost the economy by reducing the red tape required on large federal projects. “Sometimes it takes too long to get projects off the ground,” Obama said at Ellicott Dredges, citing permits and planning delays related to infrastructure [...]
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May 16, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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CHAP rejects St. Michael’s demolition
The Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) today rejected the partial teardown of the historic St. Michael’s Church complex in East Baltimore. The panel accepted the recommendation of the CHAP staff that the former schoolhouse and rectory “do contribute to the historic or architectural character” of the Butchers Hill district after hearing opposition from [...]
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Hamilton Royal Farms opponents turn to crowdfunding
They lost at City Hall, but the opponents of a proposed Royal Farms store in Hamilton are planning to appeal, and using an online fundraising strategy to build up a legal warchest. The gas station and convenience store project (proposed in Northeast Baltimore at the corner of Harford Road and Glenmont Avenue) won conditional use [...]
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May 13, 2013
