”You can follow someone on Twitter, friend them on Facebook, quote or be quoted by them in a newspaper article, but until you taste their bread, you don’t really know them.”
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From the New York Times:
This is the University of Washington’s new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from Washington State. And that, according to the dean of admissions, is how low-income Washingtonians — more than a quarter of the class — get a free ride.
I did not get a free ride. I had to ride my bicycle to the University of Washington. It had three gears, none of them well suited for the hills of Seattle. My bike lacked fenders, so when it rained—as it does often in Seattle—I would show up to class soaking wet. Then I had to pay the price of a new bicycle for a textbook. I did not get a free ride. I got a ride on a bicycle.
“When I saw all the stories about U.W. taking more international students, I thought, ‘Damn, I’m a minority now for being in-state.’ ”
The future is yours. I have my lousy bicycle.
My friend and former professor Kathy Gill is among the many Seattleites pitchiing show concepts for SXSW 2011.
Digital Voices, Meet Media Consolidation – Journalism (solo)
Kathy Gill @kegill, University of Washington.
Also tossing their hat in the ring is my amigo
Crowdsourcing innovation at a big company – Journalism (solo)
@MarkBriggs, KING 5
as well as my colleagues:
How To Break Through The Noise With Great Events – Branding / Marketing / Advertising (solo)
Jason Preston @jasonp, The Parnassus GroupSocial PR Campaigns: The Government is Watching - Branding / Marketing / Advertising (duo)
Steve Broback, @sbroback , The Parnassus Group
Voting for the final panels is open untilDeadline for voting is 9.59 pm Pacific on Monday Sept 5, 2011. Register to Vote!
Last month I had the privelege to work on the multimedia report “Breathing Uneasy” for InvestigateWest. The project is the result of a collaboration between InvestigateWest and KCTS 9. Veteran environmental reporters Robert McClure of InvestigateWest and Jenny Cunningham of KCTS 9 spent six months examining the impact of truck traffic on the communities that border the Port of Seattle, an area that new studies say has some of the worst air in the state. Their stories detail how toxic emissions from diesel trucks endanger residents of some of Seattle’s poorest communities, but also contain lessons and implications for any area dealing with major roadway traffic near schools and residential neighborhoods.
In addition, McClure and Cunningham examine how Port of Seattle Chief Executive Officer Tay Yoshitani helped oppose changes in legislation that would have made trucks cleaner, despite his promise to make Seattle the “cleanest, greenest, most energy-efficient port in the U.S.”
The report aired on KCTS Connects Friday, June 17 at 7 p.m. Click here to view the video.
To read the stories on Crosscut, click here.
It was an exciting and educating project for me. Thanks to all who were involved.
At InvestigateWest I have the opportunity to work alongside a wealth of incredibly talented individuals. Meghann Farnsworth, the Online Community Manager at the Center For Investigative Reporting and California Watch, is someone who I look to for how to perform my job proficiently. She generously granted me the opportunity to discuss the role of social media in investigative reporting organizations. I found the chat to be very interesting and useful for the work I do at InvestigateWest.
Read a summary of my discussion with her here.
I highly recommend you spend some time looking at the work of Farnsworth and CIR, especially the “On Shaky Ground“ project. I am incredibly grateful to Farnsworth for sharing her knowledge and time with me.
