Category Archives: Journalism

From journalism to content marketing

January 29, 2009 was my last day as a journalist. Almost three years in my editorial post at a business magazine, I was called into my editor-in-chief’s office. He, my publisher and a member of HR were all sitting there, looking at me with pity in their eyes. We’d received a mass email that morning [...]
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Depressing news

This photo was featured on UniversalHub on Wednesday, March 4th. Thanks Adam!
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My new office

This is pretty much the worst picture ever posted on a blog in the entire history of the internet. It’s underexposed and poorly composed. I know, I know.
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Laid off

All my office accoutrements neatly placed in a box, with a white folder detailing my severance package resting on top. I still haven’t been able to open that box since I brought it home.
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Such a busy summer

Trips to the Cape, New Bedford, and the Harbor Islands
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The death of journalism in America

As my bio says, I’m just a newbie reporter. So perhaps it’s presumptuous of me to opine on the State of Journalism with only a few years of experience under my belt. But something—okay, everything—bothered me when I read this post on Poynter. “…But nothing journalists do will reverse the dark tides of popular cynicism. [...]
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Yes! Finally! A MySpace for journalists!

Just what I’ve always wanted! And no, I’m not being facetious.
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(American) feminism’s irrelevance in contemporary J-rock/J-music

This blog’s been quiet for a few days, longer than I’d meant. I do apologize—while trying to get things organized for my upcoming vacation, the work’s been piling up.
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Journalism, coding, confusion

I’m going to add my voice to the chorus of confusion over reporters-as-programmers. Howard Owens says reporters should go for the gusto and get some coding skills, though fluency is not requisite. Matt Waite says something similar: “The idea is to create new forms of journalism with whatever tools we can, and if they don’t [...]
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Oh FFS – purple SKY magazine & Jrock in America

That didn’t take long, did it?
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