February 2012
2 posts
My Dinner With Clay Shirky, and What It Means to... →
”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.”
Who paid my tuition? →
Image via timoni
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...
September 2011
1 post
Seattle gets SXSW'd
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...
July 2011
1 post
Breathing Uneasy
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...
June 2011
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A Chat With Meghann Farnsworth
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...
May 2011
1 post
Etta Place: Do you know what you’re doing?
Butch Cassidy: Theoretically.