Tag Archives: media

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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Post amnesia

I’m biking for The Hub On Wheels in two weeks and have been preparing for it. I’m only doing the 25-mile route as I have something to do that afternoon (XKCD meetup!), but I was curious if I am physically capable of biking the full 40-ish mile route. So just for kicks a few weeks [...]
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Back from vacation, done with Digg

Vacation recap Hi everyone—sorry for the lack of updates, ever since I got back from my *wonderful* vacation in California, I’ve been swamped with work. Same ol’ story, eh?
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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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