March 6, 2010 | 22:30
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In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...
November 9, 2009 | 15:11
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The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months:
Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...
October 2, 2009 | 12:20
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It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course.
I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...
September 2, 2009 | 3:49
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I did this online journalism-related write-up last week for Spiegel International. It didn't run there, so I'm posting it here (with permission, of course):
When a 71-year-old pensioner killed three people and wounded a fourth in a shooting spree last month in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police response unfolded in real time ...
July 16, 2009 | 16:05
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I haven't gone totally off the grid. I just stopped contributing to it for a while. I needed to recharge my mental battery. Now I'm back and playing catch-up. Here, briefly, is what I've been up to the last few months.
April was "conference month" on two continents:
International Journalism Festival, ...
April 16, 2009 | 17:54
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A quick update on the travels and the blogging:
I returned to the States earlier this week, after about three months abroad. I have lots of notes and ideas, and now I just have to find the focus to turn them into blog posts. Wish me luck. :-)
What's next? I'll be ...
March 26, 2009 | 3:24
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You know that 1999 NYT story that's been floating around on Twitter about the passage of the bill to loosen U.S. banking regulations by repealing the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933? It includes some prescient warnings like this one from Sen. Byron Dorgan:
"I think we will look back in 10 years' ...
February 21, 2009 | 3:47
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OK, I'm feeling really guilty about not updating the blog, so here's a bullet-point summary of what's been going on since my last post, ages ago:
I got sick.
I started feeling better, so...
I went to BeeBCamp 2 at the BBC on Wednesday and heard lots of interesting talk about the future ...
January 24, 2009 | 18:36
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As the travel plans take shape, I'll be keeping an updated version of my itinerary here.
I wanted to use Dopplr to make a pretty map for the itinerary, but I find its interface a little too constraining. At some point I'll figure out how to make it do what I ...
November 19, 2008 | 17:15
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I've spent 10-plus years working from within to change newspapers in some small way. Now I hope to effect change from the outside. Earlier this month, I left my job as interactive technology editor at the Los Angeles Times to travel and learn and share stories about the ...