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Rocky Mountain News stops the presses

by sdulai on Feb 27, 2009 • No Comments

Today the last issue of the Rocky came off the presses and as the ink dried on the page, the last truck left the facilities and the newsroom doors close, it marks the end of another great photo paper. We’ve lost too many in recent years. Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. Also check...

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My how times have changed

by sdulai on Jan 25, 2009 • No Comments

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my short lifetime and in my even shorter professional life, it’s that everything changes. No matter what you think can’t be changed, will in all probability, change. Just thinking back at some of the things I used to believe, some examples of which I’m sure you can find...

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Time out Tuesday (extra!extra! edition): Looking back on Iraq

by sdulai on Mar 20, 2008 • No Comments

Having lived through half a decade of living with the war in Iraq on the public conscience (for some of us that’s all of high school or college) and upon the cusp of a sixth year… two questions come to mind: 1. What happened to the Afghanistan war? 2. What happened and what can we...

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5years: A number game

by sdulai on Mar 19, 2008 • No Comments

5 years 127 journalists killed (84 by murder and 43 KIA, of which 14 killed by US forces) 400,00 – 600,000 (est.) Iraqi civilians killed. 55,000 Iraqi insurgents killed 548 Contract workers killed 305 Non-Iraqis kidnapped (54 killed, 147 released, 4 escaped, 6 rescued and 94 status unknown.) 164,481 coalition troops deployed (155,000 from the...

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Joe Swan, former SJSU PJ professor dies at 78

by sdulai on Mar 12, 2008 • No Comments

I never had the pleasure of meeting him, be even then, he was part of the San Jose State University family. And a man who helped make the photojournalism program at SJSU what it is and was. I probably would not be a SJSU grad today if he hadn’t been there to continue the work...

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Finally a use for Twitter I understand

by sdulai on Feb 8, 2008 • No Comments

Scrolling by Google Maps the other day, continuing with my OCD fueled need to always check the maps before heading out for an assignment, I noticed a little button for Super Tuesday elections. I thought about writing something about how Twitter and Google teamed up to produce this real-time update of election proceedings with Twitter...

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What is truth?

by sdulai on Sep 6, 2007 • No Comments

As journalist, our stories go into the paper and inform the public today, but in time it becomes history and if that history is built on lies, then we become a nation of lies. But how do we define truth and when does something become truth? We once believed that using leeches as a medical...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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