Blogging/reporting hyperlocally for The New York Times

While school is keeping me plenty busy reporting in New York City, one day a week I’m taking the train out to Millburn, N.J., for The New York Times.
I’m fortunate enough to be an intern on a new project the Times just launched called “The Local,” two hyperlocal blogs in Brooklyn and New Jersey. [...]

Spot.Us: Journalism and micro-loan financing

Last week Columbia hosted its “Changing Media Landscape” panel along with Hearst. It featured some top new media journalists, including: Sewell Chan, editor of The New York Times “City Room” blog; Slate’s chairman; a St. Louis Post-Dispatch designer behind the “Papercuts” newspaper layoff blog; a blogger from the multi-lingual European site Cafebabel.com; and then 26-year-old [...]

Spinspotter: Good idea, badly executed

Two weeks ago, my former Santa Clara journalism professor Barbara Kelley posted on her blog about a new tool called Spinspotter, www.spinspotter.com.
The tool works by giving you, the user, the power to mark with red highlights anything in news articles that looks like spin using “spinoculars.” You give the “biased” passages a rating from 1 [...]

NYU professor limiting blogging about class

I just happened upon this link on Romenekso that caught my eye, which was occurring at the other New York J-School, NYU.
The story is about a girl in a “Generation Y” class who blogs about the behind the times attitudes in her class.
Long story short, the professor gets upset that she is being criticized, [...]

July in Indianapolis

I was inspired by this to revive my blog: http://www.howardowens.com/2008/the-best-and-brightest-of-journalisms-future-not-exactly-wired/
I also plan on creating a personal site soon, once my designer roommate has a chance to show me how.
I’ve spent the past six weeks in Indianapolis as a Pulliam Fellow, writing a lot about firefighter radios and the drama behind the board that runs the [...]