When I left the Los Angeles Times in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis -- a time when the newspaper industry's future looked particularly bleak -- I wondered wistfully if I was walking away from my last newspaper job. I'd worked for newspaper companies my entire career, and despite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...