Oakland Tribune puts a face on homicide
In 5 yrs. 557 families. A record high 148 lives in 2006. Homicide and Oakland, in the Bay Area you can’t have a conversation about one without someone bringing the topic to the other, but maybe that’s a conversation worth having. About a week ago the Oakland Tribune took another bold step into expanded storytelling...
I will gladly speak today so that I may complain next Tuesday
Today is an important day… no, relax this isn‘t another column on why you should vote… ok so today is an important day, today is your chance to voice your opinion and have a say in how things work, are and will be. Today you decide what your tomorrow will be like. (Ok I lied,...
AIRing it all out
PBS launches a new journalistically inclined series that adds to their already impressive roster. The weekly half-hour program chronicles contemporary investigative journalism making headlines. They even interview the newsmakers behind the stories, offering students like myself and news-junkies a glimpse into the thought process behind the stories. Not just the ‘what’, but the ‘why.’...
Oh well…
(I was looking through some of my unpublished articals and it looks like I forgot to publish this one… it’s been a few months… it was supposed to go up June 3) Looks like I won’t be traveling with famed New York Times columnist Nick Kristof to Africa anytime. On a positive note, I didn’t...
Not to be left behind
Earlier this year I posted about Kodak’s new logo. Now Fuji film has unveiled a new logo as well. The times they are a’changin… I guess with the new digital face of photography, it was only a matter of time before even the film suppliers changed with it. A new coat of paint, a shiny...
Maybe old dogs can learn new tricks?
It looks like newspapers have embraced ‘new journalism’ so strongly that they’re beating TV at its’ own game. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences created a new Emmy award this year for news and documentary programs produced for websites, mobile phones, iPods and other such ‘new media.’ Surprisingly the most visual medium, the...
