Why I’m leaving journalism

Journalism’s the only career I’ve known. I’ve worked for two newspapers, one for a year and the other for 17…

The vitality of long-form journalism

Print is a dying medium. Long-form is a style, and it will live…

This Article Will Make You Laugh, Cry, Then Resent Me

The problem with headline culture

EPIC 2014

How did we do?

In the year 2014, people have access to a breadth and depth of information unimaginable in an earlier age. Everyone contributes in some way. Everyone participates to create a living, breathing mediascape. However, the press as you know it as ceased to exist…

Journalists’ big switch

More companies are hiring scribes to ramp up ‘content plays’

Writing That is Alive

“The first requirement for any piece of writing is that it must be alive.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you bore yourself, you bore others,” a comedian friend told me…

Objective Subjectivity - Mathew Brady - U.S. Grant

My wishlist for a modern news organization

This summer I spoke to a large well-known news organization about joining their design team to help figure out what data-driven news should look like today. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it would be a monumental task to get an…

Why I want to study Journalism

Despite the obvious fact that it leads to a not-so-lucrative job market

‘Sticky pieces’, reading that stuck 

In praise of long form writing