One of my personal highlights from SPJ was seeing Sreenath Sreenivasan, who was never really my professor, but he was the adviser of the Columbia SPJ chapter. He gave a seminar on how journalists can better use the web, but a lot of these resources are great for non-journalists, too. A link to his web […]

My primary newspaper is the New York Times. I feel like I should be morally obligated to read five or so newspapers every morning: the Times, the Washington Post, one or both of the major NYC tabloids, those free papers they’ve started handing out on the subway, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Which […]

At the SPJ conference today (well, technically yesterday now), Al Siegal, of the Siegal Commission that investigated Jayson Blair, made an interesting comment at the ethics panel presentation. I’m going to be completely unethical now and reconstruct his quote, but he was talking about reporters who objected to having corrections run on their stories. “I […]

The occasion of doing a first of anything makes one prone to ponder infinity. But pondering infinity makes me physically naseous, so I won’t. I’m more inclined to say a little something about my own writing and how I think this might help it, and to do a little bit of explanation of what I […]