Engaging the status quo

“There’s got to be a better way to do this.”

That’s usually a common thought I have in an attempt to figure out what role I am supposed to have in journalism. It’s more evident now, two months after the date of the 5th anniversary of the completion of my…

Optics and an engaged electorate

Ahead of one of the biggest stories of the week in the realms of American politics, Margaret Sullivan…

Journalists are human too

Wednesday, the 4th of September — roughly 5pm. The Starbucks located off a corner of a crowded mall in downtown…

The cited truth

Lindsey Christ was frustrated. The journalist for the NY1 television network in New York City had seen a 2018 story she had…

Asking for the h-word — help

The leaves are beginning to turn on the trees outside, yet the refrain in my brain is a constant — a refrain…

Figuring it out as we go along

A little over a year ago, I wrote an essay about being a millennial caregiver, and as I researched the…

Journalism and the “a” word

I am not one for New Year’s resolutions. The last time that I planned one, it was foiled in a few short days…

The possibilities of innovation

There are a plethora of things that are certain. Sometimes it snows in April, headlines from NPR are guaranteed at one minute past the hour, and in the culture of journalism circa 2019, fascinating ideas are frequent.

A tip about The Tip Sheet

Journalism is going through a vast amount of change — change so quick and so paramount that its implications are…

The (not quite) big idea

The other day, I found myself on the telephone to an industry colleague at the University of Missouri. She was…