This website is terribly stale, and I haven’t had a chance to either spruce it up or burn it down. So until I do one or the other, please enjoy these links to a handful of random things I’ve written over the years:
- The year local publishers get smart(er) about change (2017), my Nieman Lab prediction for journalism in 2018
- 8 things I learned in moving from news to product (2014): Lessons from my experience at The Seattle Times
- Required reading from 20 years ago (2012) on the 1992 memo that launched The Washington Post’s digital ambitions
- Libraries: An appreciation (2011) on what journalists and library scientists have in common
- Filling in the blanks on DocumentCloud (2009), in which the creators of the platform share their hopes for the yet-to-be-launched tool
- Technical skills in journalism jobs (2008): Adobe Flash, of course, appears prominently in this informal survey from a decade ago.
- Come work with me (2007), the job posting that led to the creation of Data Desk at the L.A. Times (with the brilliant Ben Welsh and Sean Connelley ultimately answering the call)
- Buffett: Print is dying (2006), an obvious truth that will take some newspaper execs another decade to acknowledge
- Non-traditional sources cloud Google News results (2005): More than a decade before “fake news”, my M.A. research looked for bias in algorithmically curated news.
- Good, bad and ugly (2004), in which I attempt to summarize my first week (of some 250) as a resident of the city of Los Angeles (Later I will discover a snippet from an Encyclopedia Britannica article that more succinctly captures the place.)