Category Archives: Journalism

青い海、青い空 [Blue sea, blue sky] – TRANSLATION

A translation of the Japanese poem written by an unknown soldier who fought and died on Saipan (in what is now the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands in the Pacific ocean).
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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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