I went back home to Buffalo, N.Y. last weekend. The brisk air, dead leaves and snow (!) reminded me that the holiday season will soon be here–along with the arduous task of having to decide what to tell people I want for Christmas. It’s such a first-world problem; crawling around the Internet, clicking and dragging [...]
I am a digital media disciple
and journalist in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Digital media present new challenges for novice journalists
The luxury of the rookie mistake is dead. Romenesko tackled one of the bigger issues in Web journalism today–that newbies to the industry face unprecedented scrutiny as their stories are pushed and pulled across the Internet. “[M]any journalists starting their career no longer have the luxury of making mistakes out of the spotlight because they [...]
Supermarkets are hives of interesting people and homes to some of America’s best stories
This is something I wrote for my editing class with Charles Anzalone. It was heavily influenced by Gay Talese’s short story, “New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed.” Anzalone turned me on to Talese several weeks ago, and he’s since become very influential on my writing. My apologies for its length. Supermarkets are hives [...]
A brief look at student journalism at the University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo isn’t a J-school by any stretch of the imagination.
In fact, sometimes the school can be downright hostile to the student publications on campus.
Despite the school’s complete lack of a journalism major, students could do a lot worse than UB if they’re looking to study journalism in college. In fact, the lack of a major could benefit students — I’ve been able to build my own major, focusing on the things I believe are important to journalism, rather than following a pre-set curriculum. Whether or not my major gets approved is another story.
Between the University Heights, UB 2020 and the Student Association’s mishaps, the school is a great place for students to cover a wide variety of interesting and scandalous stories.
A tiny Web hamlet
I’ve recently been hearing that hyper local journalism is the future. Media companies are finding it both expensive and inefficient to cover large swaths of land like they’ve been doing for the past half century, so they’re going to shift to covering small, partitioned areas. And while some say that it won’t last, hyper local [...]