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Andrew Donaldson

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North Carolina, United States
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Made in West Virginia | Occasional talking head | Frequent VA patient | community college culinary student | Words @wv_watch & @ordinarytimemag | @heardtellshow

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Andrew Donaldson’s Biography

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Andrew Donaldson is a widely published opinion and commentary writer, newspaper columnist, occasional talking head, and managing editor. Andrew has also published featured writing and reporting on culture, politics, current events, profiles, and is experienced in radio, television and podcasting.

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Answering the calls when the sky falls

Answering the calls when the sky falls

Many of the folks affected by the storms immediately grabbed their phones and started calling 911.All those c…

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Fayette County cascades headline West Virginia Waterfall Trail

Fayette County cascades headline West Virginia Waterfall Trail

Capitalizing on the age of tourist spots needing to be “Instagram Ready” for folks to discover and share on s…

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Progress 2024

Progress 2024

Fayette County Cascades Headline West Virginia Waterfall Trail A dozen waterfalls in Fayette County repres…

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Happiness, Ranked and Revealed

Happiness, Ranked and Revealed

Understanding younger Americans "happiness" drop off has to include the conversation of carefully cultivated …

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Girl Dadding in the Taylor Swift Era

Girl Dadding in the Taylor Swift Era

A bunch of my 90s artists overdosed, died tragically, or revealed themselves as deviants, so spare me "Taylor…

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News, Notes, and Notions for 17MAR24

News, Notes, and Notions for 17MAR24

On that shopping trip the first morning of a roadtrip somewhere else cause you forgot stuff, plus links worth…

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An American and Canadian Talking Trade

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By Andrew Donaldson
| Substack
While American and Canadian officials crank up the rhetoric, threats, and retaliations, we try to turn down the noise on the US-Canada trade hot mess as our old friend and certified Canadian David Clement joins American Andrew Donaldson on how we got here, can either President Trump or PM Carney get out of this mess, the politics and structures that make the situation worse, and what happens next on this Heard Tell.
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Let's talk about how we talk about things

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By Andrew Donaldson
| The Times West Virginian Verified
Somehow we are supposed to have efficiency in government while not having efficiency in how we talk to each other about government. No wonder we get more of the same but louder, faster, harder. In ancient Rome there was a job titled nomenclator, taken from the Roman way of naming things, who was an assistant or slave explaining who folks were and what they were doing. In a formal setting they announced important persons entering the room by title and such.
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Let's talk about how we talk about things

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By Andrew Donaldson
| The Register-Herald Verified
Somehow we are supposed to have efficiency in government while not having efficiency in how we talk to each other about government. No wonder we get more of the same but louder, faster, harder. In ancient Rome there was a job titled nomenclator, taken from the Roman way of naming things, who was an assistant or slave explaining who folks were and what they were doing. In a formal setting they announced important persons entering the room by title and such.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Guest hosting local radio when a scandal with a teacher abusing students

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. As a kid I would help my parents type up their lesson plans and such on their Sears electric typewriter. Also had a travel sized one.

How is social media changing news?

Social media became both the headwaters and tidal pools of news