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  • Write a story with this data

    Last week I hung out at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism as I saw some of the groundbreaking collaborations its students are engaged in: primarily between computer science and journalism. I get the sense that Medill is preparing for a reality of lean-and-mean newsrooms, with fewer paid staffers, allocating the grunt journalism to alternative…

  • If you’re doing exceptional work

    I’m presently listening to Brian Storm, my former MSNBC colleague and now multimedia storytelling visionary through his NYC-based production company, Media Storm.  We’re both presenting at the Visual Journalism Bootcamp on Whidbey Island in Washington. He does powerful work — we just watched an excerpt from Unintended Consequences — the children born of rape after…

  • Influence and persuasion in a YouTube world

    A call today from a local TV talk show producer looking to book me as a tech “expert”, alerted me to YouTube’s 5th birthday today (here’s my segment).  I wish I had known about the video streaming site’s public beta test back in May 2005 — at that same time, I was struggling to compress,…

  • The Exact Opposite of Writing to Pictures