Blogging pays off in odd ways
Very cool thing happened today. A Brazilian columnist picked up on a posting I made for the SPJ International Committee. His whole column today was about the posting. Brazilian columnist…
International media looks at U.S. politics. It ain’t always pretty.
Welcome to the world of the foreign press trying to explain to their home audiences the U.S. Tea Party movement. It's about the same as that story of the five…
The Press and the Public: Nov. 10
Join the Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and members of the public in a spirited discussion about the ethics of credible news and why it…
Idaho SPJ successfully used Twitter to report an event
The Snake River SPJ chapter in Idaho/Washington showed how Twitter can be used successully to promote and report on a program. I used Storify to arrange the Tweets in a…
New tools to get data coming soon
The Census Bureau will release the data from the 2010 Census January 2011. Reporters looking for a bit more depth and context to their stories will want to use that…