Archive for the 'J-school' Category

Two things I have now that I didn’t before:

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

A Masters of Science degree in Journalism, granted me by Columbia University
A hangover.

I would not have the degree without Kate, who every day makes new adventures — big and small — possible in ways I never imagined. And Jason Haas, who first put the notion in my head that graduate school was perhaps the [...]

Today is the first day of the rest of your weekend

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Radio Workshop, hands down my favorite class of the year, wrapped up last night. I have learned many things this year, but persistent and nagging anxieties that I haven’t learned enough or the right things are still occasionally fluttering around. My last several pieces were, to my mind, boring and unnecessary. [...]

AP: Mobile News Network

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Mobile News Network.
Go to it with a mobile phone.
It’s got some of the best optimized-for-the-iPhone web design I’ve seen. That said, if I were an AP client newspaper with any kind of web presence, I would be pissed. The bigger the online presence AP has, the less room there is for [...]

Things not to do in a week with deadlines

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

1) Start reading Iain M. Banks’ latest book, “Matter.”
That is all.

Plans and offers

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I have been verbally offered and verbally accepted a job as Web Producer for the new, national, morning show being developed here in New York at WNYC: The Takeaway. The show aims to be national in scope and will be competing with NPR’s Morning Edition.
The job is more web-oriented and less directly radio-oriented [...]