politics | Shaminder Dulai

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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Boston Globe uses tag cloud for portrait of canidates

by sdulai on Aug 16, 2008 • No Comments

Pretty cool if you ask me, I’m just wondering what took them so long. Anyone whose been online over the last five years can tell you that the illustration is nothing more than a tag cloud, but in print it’s a bold move. It’s nice to see print taking chances and playing with typography, now...

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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...

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Vanity and fairness?

by sdulai on Sep 4, 2007 • No Comments

I’ve been away for some time, running here and there and everywhere, but I finally got a chance to check out Vanity Fair’s July issues with the 20 different covers with various people in the public eye all posing and strutting for their support of Africa. Hmm…. it’s cool and all, but one thing… how...

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Save the earth+ Burning man… something doesn’t add up

by sdulai on Aug 27, 2007 • No Comments

Here’s my random thought of the day… Burning man is coming up quick and out of curiosity I thought I’d look into how to get there. I found the usual tour bus stuff, trains to Reno and a couple of posts on Craigslist from folks looking to split the gas, but a few that caught...

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A serendipitous end at the Santa Cruz Sentinel

by sdulai on Jun 19, 2007 • No Comments

My time at the Santa Cruz Sentinel has come to an end, last Wednesday was my last. I worked Mondays, and it was kinda weird waking up and not having to drive for an hour over over the hill today. Everything has to come to an end sometime. For my last day there wasn’t much...

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Asian Representations in American Cinema Developed for a Teenage Audience or Why Doesn’t Anyone Look Like Me?

by sdulai on May 17, 2007 • No Comments

In another life I spent more than a few years writing film reviews and essays of new and old, classic and infamous, good and bad films for various websites and any press outlets that would have me. Recently I had the chance to revisit my old passion when it came time to produce a research...

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First rule of Journalism– don’t have a bias!

by sdulai on May 5, 2007 • No Comments

Wow… and they say they’re fair and balanced. Fox News apparently decided that the world was showering Kurt Vonnegut’s memory with too much admiration and respect– you know with all the ticker tape parades, national day of mourning and panicked children rocking back and forth in corners of rooms the world over. Clearly someone needed...

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TV News is a bussiness, here’s some funny that proves it

by sdulai on Apr 13, 2007 • No Comments

As I reflect on today’s events, from Fox News’ treatment of Kurt Vonnegut’s death to the endless Anna Nicole Smith updates to the stories that never go beyond the ink of newspapers to today’s events at Virginia Tech University I find myself once again comparing TV News to Newspapers. Those that know me will tell...

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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