Guest on O’Reilly Radar Podcast
I was fortunate to join Jon Bruner and Jenn Webb, co-hosts of the Radar Podcast for a roundtable discussion with Mark Trammell (of Sonos, previously of Obama HQ and Twitter) and Rebekah Monson (of the...
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Remembering Raul Ramirez
Raul Ramirez 1946-2013 Raul was my professor. Raul was tough. I am not sure how I passed that investigative reporting class at San Francisco State… but he taught me about the integrity, the power and...
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Launched! [blank] is the future of journalism
[Blank] is the future of journalism is bar game for jaded journalists, created by Kim Bui, David Cohn, Maite Fernandez, Robert Hernandez and Matt Thompson at a DC bar in January 2014. The premise is...
View ArticleStorify of my AMA/Keynote experiment done mid-flight
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Twitter bot vs misinformation = @accuracybot
I made this icon by hand in less than two minutes, so I know it does not look cool. But you get the point.We’ve all seen them. We all hate them. But what if we created a “spam” Twitter bot for good?...
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My keynote for JACC 2014
Tonight I gave one of the most important talks I have ever given in my life. In 1996, while a student at Pierce Community College, I attended my first journalism conference: Journalism Association of...
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My ISOJ talk: Life After Television + Mobile is Dead
I was honored to be asked by Rosental Alves to chair/moderate a talk with some amazing panelists (Rahul Chopra, senior vice president video at News Corp; Daniel Eilemberg, senior vice president, chief...
View ArticleRunning for ONA Board reelection
In the four years I have served on the board, ONA has gone through some significant changes. And while I serve alongside some of the industry’s best and brightest leaders, I – humbly – would like to...
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If you are an ONA member…
Voting will open Friday, Sept. 26, and end Oct. 14. All ONA members in good standing as of Sept. 24, 2014, are eligible to vote. More details here.
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My ONA14 Talk: Wearable Tech, Augmented Reality and Journalism
Watch my entire #ONA14 on Wearables + AR + Journalism here: http://ona14.journalists.org/sessions/wearables-ar/ My slides are here: http://bit.ly/ona14-wearables-ar-journalism
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#wjchat: Five years of thank you
It’s crazy to think that every Wednesday for the past five years, the Web/Digital community has come together for 90 minutes on Twitter to talk about their craft, sharing their knowledge and...
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NENPA: My #realtalk presentation to newsroom leaders
I was invited to speak at the New England Newspaper Publishers Association in Boston to talk about industry challenges, pulling no punches. “We would be quite interested in your views on what most...
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Hurricane Katrina and VR Journalism
Tech has always been dorky. Long before Google Glass, nerds were looking like geeks in the name of innovation. I’ve done my share of looking foolish, but I do it in the name of journalism. This week...
View ArticleMy teaching style inspired another professor
When I started the semester last fall, I put my faith in gnomes and underpants.” The opening line from a MediaShift post written by Prof. Stacy Forster. It was an analogy I’d heard over the summer from...
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You don’t need to be the NYTimes to do VR (posted on Medium)
I wrote this piece reacting to the news that The New York Times and Google were partnering up to do a major VR push. Got a lot of social shared and recommendations via Medium. Yay! Here comes...
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NYT VR: It’s just the beginning of a long road
I watched NYT/VRSE’s VR mini documentary called The Displaced, through the newly launched NYT VR app and it is clearly a sign of things to come. Here are some thoughts after I watched the piece....
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My Nieman Lab prediction: 2016 is VR’s time
Role up your sleeves, journo industry, because you need to start preparing to lead the next disruption. When it actually hits is nearly irrelevant, because there’s no doubt it will hit.” You can read...
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Sixteen apps for 2016
This piece was written for SPJ’s magazine, Quill. You can read it here: http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=2245 One of the first workshops I gave as a new professor was to introduce journalists to...
View ArticleA 360/VR audio tour of Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park
This 360/VR audio tour was made with Story Spheres and audio I produced for the launch of the sculpture park in 2007. I recorded then Art Critic Sheila Farr about individual art pieces, as well as the...
View Article5 ways to have immediate impact on your industry
NOTE: I quickly wrote up this post right before a flight and haven’t really copyedited yet. Diversity and inclusion is a challenge that often feels like an overwhelming problem that we, as individuals,...
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