Orozco Ink - Writing & Editing

07/24/2024

The exciting news is a few paragraphs into the piece.

SANTA BARBARA, CA – July 23, 2024 – TV Santa Barbara (TVSB), the region’s nonprofit, community media access center since

06/22/2024

↝ Wearing an underwire bra causes breast cancer.
↝ People fear public speaking more than death.
↝ Tattoos are unprofessional.
↝ Walking isn't exercise.
↝ We only use 10% of our brains.
↝ You need to 💩 after every meal.
↝ Mama Cass died from choking on a sandwich.
↝ Everyone should drink eight glasses of water a day.
↝ Each of us has one dominant learning style: visual, auditory or kinesthetic.

🛑 Myths
🛑 Fake news
🛑 Urban legends
🛑 Personal opinions
🛑 Conspiracy theories
🛑 Debunked and outdated research

Whether you're just giving unsolicited health advice on social media 🙄 or spreading misinformation through your presentations or your writing, PLEASE think twice about whether you're sharing opinions or facts.

If you don't know how to spot fake news and debunked research, or if you don't know how to fact-check what you're reading online, I have good news for you.

There are excellent fact-checking resources all over the web, like FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, NutritionFacts.org and snopes.com. I'll share below a document that describes the SIFT and PICK methods of evaluating and fact-checking sources.

Starshine Roshell, Lisa Osborn and Amy Marie Orozco, three brilliant journalists who are local to me have recently received a grant to provide free media literacy training, starting in August.

Something may sound ABSOLUTELY believable to you. It may fall in line with everything you've ever been told and taught in your family of origin, community, culture, friend group and life.

But if you choose not to fact-check and validate your sources, you might be spreading misinformation without even realizing it.

Confirmation bias, the "tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with existing beliefs," is normal and mostly unintentional.

But it's there. And if you want to be take seriously as a communicator, you have to constantly challenge your own confirmation biases, and make sure you're not just passing on information that sounds good to you but has not been verified.

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Oh, and please stop giving health advice if you haven't been asked and you're not someone's doctor. kthxbye👋🏼

06/22/2024

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06/06/2024

Feeling a bit blue. Bittersweet. Thank you Coastal View News!

Cannabis by the Sea – a Carpinteria publication dedicated to information on the health and wellness properties of cannabis – entered the world at an unstable time: 2020.

06/04/2024

... and a time for every purpose under heaven.

06/04/2024

How would you define Carp Cocktail?

05/09/2024

Always a great event!

More than 150 communicators met up for the Association for Women in Communications (AWC–SB) luncheon on Wednesday, May 1, including Carpinteria Magazine editor Lea Boyd and Coastal View News columnist

03/21/2024

The latest from the Sea Witch Coastal View News.

Dear Amy O,

02/27/2024

https://awcsb.org/member-spotlight-amy-marie-orozco/

Member Spotlight: Amy Marie Orozco talks to Leslie A. Westbrook Amy Orozco is the editor of Carpinteria Magazine and the former editor of Carpintiera’s weekly newspaper, Coastal View News. She also runs Orozco Ink, a writing and editing business. Leslie A. Westbrook: Describe your business. What d...

02/26/2024

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-et-neighborhood27-2009jan27-story.html

The city of San Fernando still boasts elements of pre-statehood California.

02/21/2024

What would you advise? Curious about different responses.

Dear Amy O,