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Kick Ass News Apps! — projects to inspire journos

To introduce ourselves and our skills to the Trib newsroom, Joe and I showed off some news applications we love, and that we hope will inspire the journalists here to think about telling their stories in new ways online.
For the folks who missed the show, here’s a quick rundown of what we talked about. (I [...]

Got a job

Next week, my internship at ProPublica will end. The chance to work here was an extraordinarily lucky break, and I can say without reservation that this is the best job I’ve ever had. Never before have I worked with so many brilliant, interesting, and damn nice people.
I love living in New York, and am disappointed [...]

Twitter lightning talk

Wikipedia sez: “A Lightning Talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.”
This particular lightning talk was delivered to the ProPublica newsroom a couple weeks ago. To experience it [...]

Woot, ProPublica! LA Times, fail. A win for not-for-profit news.

From Journalism.co.uk:
Yesterday afternoon it emerged that two more journalists would likely be leaving the LA Times, but not as a direct result of the editorial cuts.
According to LA Observed, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber will be leaving the paper later in the summer to join the not-for-profit investigative start up [...]