As a Society for News Design member and a believer in the future of journalism, I feel compelled to share the open letter on the value of design posted on SND.org. If you have a few moments, please take a look.
The public life beat reporters at the Missourian provided live coverage during Pres. Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Wednesday. We streamed the speech live and hosted a conversation using Cover It Live, providing links to credible articles whenever the president referenced particular points. The chat had some compelling conversation from people in [...]
Be warned, another nerdy journalism Twitter story is about to unfold — While checking my e-mail Tuesday, I noticed a couple tweets pop up discussing what curriculum changes the J-School needs to make in order to keep up with how the industry is changing. The tweets were marked with the “#lfyj” hash tag and several [...]
This week, I’ve been working on a graphic about the number of folks who resist arrests in Columbia and the disparity between each race. This story is set to run Wednesday, so I’ll post the graphic when it runs, but I learned something this week that I found rather disappointing. The Columbia Police Department keeps [...]
As a Web Editor for KOMU.com (the Web site of mid-Missouri’s NBC affiliate), I supplement every reporter’s video with additional coverage online, from text stories and still graphics to interactive Flash graphics. Since the push to the Web is still relatively new, we currently don’t have a style set for these Flash graphics. I’m starting [...]
Iranian President Ahmadinejad held an exclusive interview for Newsweek and the Washington Post and discussed a few contentious topics, such as the war in Afghanistan, the development of enriched uranium and how Iran currently has a Newsweek reporter behind bars. The entire interview can be found here. It was a very interesting read, to say [...]
For those of you know who haven’t been following the journalism industry for the past 10 years, I have some news for you: newspapers are dying and typical broadcast newscasts aren’t too far behind. As an aspiring journalist, it took me a couple years of denial before I came to terms with this information, but [...]
After an extremely busy summer and a fast-paced start to my fall, I was finally slowed down by a flu bug. It actually proved to be a useful week of rest for me, albeit at a rather inconvenient time in the semester. I’m not sure if I really buy into this whole swine flu thing [...]