What is truth?
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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How is news changing? Ask some experts!
I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about new media and how it is going to change the news business and what we need to do to make sure we change with it. There’s been more than a few posts here on SLR and talks in person to anyone willing to listen....
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Woo-hoo! SJSU is (back) in the house!
Just moments ago, SJSU PJ Department head Dr. D. Michael Cheers, and this summers fellow at National Geographic, sent me an e-mail that our project, formerly under wraps, had a new national backer. National Geographic. He asked me to pass the word, so, here we go: National Geographic has joined The San Jose Mercury News...
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A little house cleaning (e.g. shameless self promtion)
Well it seems after a flurry of activity on SLR I got a little too busy and haven’t been posting. Where was I? I said I’ve been busy (and I’m OK mom), really really busy. The past month I’ve started, stopped, continued and dropped about a half dozen projects and story ideas as I continue...
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I won…. a very honorable scholarship
Last Saturday the Peninsula Press Club held an awards banquet… they announced to those in attendance that I had been awarded this year’s Herb Caen Student Scholarship… named for the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist… whose style I am mimicking here… (poorly)… I was not able to attend but I heard it was quite a...
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Portfolio always in flux
The last couple months I’ve been living and dying with my portfolio as I look through it over and over, change it up constantly and formulate game plans for future stories. I’ve been thinking of what works and what doesn’t. What editors will want to see and what they couldn’t care less about. What will...
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What a crazy day I’m having
Sometimes you just have to sit back and say… wow… just wow. I came in today to the internship and shot six assignments and produced a multimedia piece, so all in all, not bad. But just looking it over, in the end it was one crazy day. A crazy racist lady wanted to know where...
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First rule of Journalism– don’t have a bias!
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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I think I might like baseball… gulp!
The last couple of days I’ve been shooting a lot of high school baseball and softball games and I’m afraid I may like baseball now. I always said I didn’t like baseball because it was boring and slow and I hated sitting still and watching grown men spit and scratch and stretch and stand for...
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Feels good to be appriciated, so this is what it’s like
One of my recent posts was referenced in Columbia Journalism Review recently. I don’t really have much to say, except that it feels very good to be name dropped in an article in the premier higher education and professional journalism journal. I’ve been getting a lot of new hits recently as a result and I’m...
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Another case of ethics?
I had thought about chiming in on Allan Detrich’s firing from the Toledo Blade after it was discovered that he turned in some altered images as the genuine article, but there was nothing I felt I could add to the debate that hadn’t already been said. And besides, you’ve got Detrich himself speaking about the...
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Virginia Tech student press presses on
With the news of what happened, why it happened, who to blame and my own circle of friends wondering why the media has latched onto the shooters immigrant status (is this relevant in anyway? That’s like saying he liked hats.), it’s easy to see how some angles of the story have been overlooked. Thanks to...
