Hey, twenty-something – do you still live at home?

Watch the full documentary here. (Runs: 45:11) From the documentary web page: “GENERATION BOOMERANG examines why so many of today’s young adults are slow to launch.  The reality is that getting ahead today… Read More →

Thesis hangover: a post for posterity

If you follow this blog, you know I’ve been neck-deep in another website (So, you want to be a journalist?) for several months. Short explanation: that site somehow became my thesis project. I’m… Read More →

Those darn kids and their democratic rights

“Are you all students?” said the blond woman with the clipboard, gawking at us as we waited in line. On April 22nd, my peers and I were among the first citizens to show… Read More →

Should entrepreneurial journalists flock to grad schools?

- Allow me to play devil’s advocate on this one: I’m not convinced that universities are the best incubators for entrepreneurs. In the video embedded above, we see Jeff Jarvis sitting in front… Read More →

Whatever else changes, we still need a principled press.

“Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.” So says the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. But the center does not define the word in an absolute or philosophical sense. They… Read More →

Challenge yourself to be a better journalist in 2011

Are you a journalist without any New Year’s resolutions? Well, if you would like a back-to-basics approach this year, the good folks behind the Canadian Journalism Project (CJP) have come up with a… Read More →

“Ungrateful” young writers: borrow a soul

Today I’m borrowing pieces of Roger Rosenblatt’s soul. The prolific writer, without being “the least bit facetious” has asked that young writers try this, and effectively disregard more conventional counsel to simply be… Read More →

Thesis writing with George Orwell

I sit alone at the kitchen table, pressing my palms against my eye sockets and muttering curse words. I’m working on a file called thesis_stuff.doc and, as its name indicates, it is a jumble… Read More →

If you listen to no other podcast this year…

… you have to listen to Stephanie Nolen’s speech for the 2010 Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism. If you’re a student of journalism, it’s basically a moral obligation. Last night I finally tuned in as… Read More →

No Sane, No Gain

These are some of the signs being voted “most sane” in the lead-up to Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity (an effort to “take it down a notch” for America). I had a… Read More →