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10 Years Since I Left Journalism
On December 30, 2005, I finished up my shift on the sports design and copy desk, stepped out of the office building of The Herald-Sun shortly after midnight, and walked away from journalism — the...
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Why the Chinese New Year Gala Is Better Than 10 Super Bowls, in a Bazillion...
Well, at least better than 10 Super Bowl halftime shows. 1. Let’s get this New Year party started by rapping about the anti-corruption campaign … 2. … and the four competencies … 3. … while we...
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What Local News Can Do with Reader Location
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism has been experimenting with innovative local news products, and recently, it asked the following question: If we knew where you lived and worked, how might we...
View ArticleIf Journalists Covered Their Own Industry Like Everyone Else’s
The News Media Alliance, an industry lobby group for news publishers, has been pushing hard for an antitrust exemption for news publishers to “collectively negotiate” with tech companies. Those...
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10 Steps to Writing A New York Times Culture Piece on New Publishing Mediums
Stock Image from Pexels Congratulations on being assigned to write a piece for the New York Times on the newest fad in publishing mediums (OK, it’s been around for at least a decade but we at the...
View ArticleThoughts on Facebook News
Facebook just rolled out Facebook News, a new effort to placate … I mean, support news organizations, many of whom have been howling for its head on a spike. I hope I’m wrong about this, but I don’t...
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Alexa, What’s A Narrative That Never Goes Out of Fashion?
Businessweek published a big cover story about “eavesdropping” smart speakers last week, complete with a WTF video illustration. I thought the story seemed kind of familiar, so I went digging through...
View ArticleMedia Commentary, Valentine’s Day Edition
Roses are red,Violets are blue.“We survived TV and radio,So surely the internet, too.” Roses are red,Violets are blue.“We’ll always need newspapers —You can’t take computers to the loo.” Roses are...
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Project Review: The Common Wind
I’ve decided to try something new on this blog. Every so often, I’ll take a look back at a project I worked on. I do this not to show off the piece, but rather because I find it helpful to lay out my...
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Project Review: Illustrating Data Analysis
I recently put together this illustration: It’s a promotional graphic for a project analyzing data on the graduation and career paths of PhD students. That sentence, plus the name of the project, was...
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