Media Reporting

This media is the beginning of my journalism endeavor. My mission is to properly frame stories and bring understanding and calmness to a consistently provoked and instigated public. My hopes are to bring precise coverage and properly give feedback and commentary to current events in real time. My name is…

Bottom line up front: Counts of confirmed cases and Covid-related deaths are not particularly useful or meaningful. Counts of patients in hospitals and in intensive care are. Watch the news, read a news story, you’re going to see numbers about the current state of the pandemic. …

The importance of critical understanding of statistics — This piece is a resource for the reader who wants to be informed more about simple statistical questions that are crucial to interpret the current situation and helps to read the news differently. In the following I will describe four very basic, yet important statistical phenomenons. False-positivity rate A test is there…

When the name Vegas is mentioned, the images of casino lights, big money, sex, drugs and all other forms of vices typically comes to mind; however, for someone present in Sin City on the first day of October, Vegas now holds a different connotation. I was there. I was there…

by Awl Sponsors This post is sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The media play an important role in our democracy — the “watchdog” role, keeping the government in check. But who watches the watchers? Turns out the media do that, too. In 2006, Syracuse University’s S.I…