We’re fast approaching November 8, but I’ve been knee deep in election coverage since July. I spent the summer tinkering with our election pages, shooting video and interviewing candidates and trying to bring them together with our audience in a digital space — all with varying degrees of success.
There are a [...]
I spent the weekend in Boston for the Online News Association’s annual conference. I’m a member of the ONA stream team, volunteers who produce live video streams of sessions for those who couldn’t attend.
A few of the sessions I produced: B.S. Detection for Digital Journalists and Cooking Up [...]
After a conversation with one of the editors at The Star Ledger a few weeks back, I started looking into DocumentCloud, “a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing” primary source documents on the Web.
It’s a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, so my editor just had to [...]
I finished cutting short interviews with each of the mayoral candidates in Holyoke, MA this week. Next up are the Springfield candidates this week, and then Northampton the next. They’ll all be going up on MassLive.com before the primary in September.
Next week, we kick off a weekly feature I’m implementing called Ask [...]
The third in a series of commentaries I’m doing for New England Public Radio aired recently. This time around I sing the praises of the hyperlink. If you’ve found your way to this blog, you probably don’t need a primer, but it drives me absolutely nuts when [...]
It’s a little early for the average voter, but I’m already thinking about November. See?
I built special election pages for each of the cities having municipal elections this year, with a particular focus on contested mayoral races. The blogs are fed by tags specific for election season. So, for example, every story [...]
I have a well-documented affinity for interactive maps, but usually make them through third party services. This one required significantly more work on the back-end.
After a yearlong hiatus, my portfolio has been rebuilt. Check it out.
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