Yes, I joined the 4000 who have signed up to experiment with the Huffington Post to imitate Collin Beavan’s year of living a life on the planet with zero impact. No, not a gimmick, and yes, harder than it sounds.
I’ll be adding blog posts and comments on the Massachusetts group site. Already, this experiment has [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘journalism’
October 20, 2009
No Impact Week
July 17, 2009
The new way is two-way in Journalism
In Brian Lehrer’s conversation with Chris Anderson, author of FREE: The Future of a Radical Price, Lehrer questions Anderson’s notion that today’s journalists will evolve to be editors/coaches of unpaid, amateur content producers. It may sound like older journalists grasping at the straws of job security, but that’s where we are headed, and their experience [...]
September 13, 2008
Uncle Sam doesn’t want the fat, stupid and criminal?
I smelled something funky right away in Larry Littlefield’s post that includes the tiresome phrase “Youth of Today” in the title (so we know right away where this is going). He’s gracious enough to qualify his finger pointing by suggesting that while the 70% youth are apparently too slack to be military material, it may [...]
August 14, 2008
Contrast last post to this reporter’s coverage
I thought I had it tough squeezing through crowds at Union Square to get a good shot of the spectacle created by protesters supporting the Free Tibet movement. Jon Ray, a reporter for ITN in the UK, had it much worse.
Ray and a cameraman were reporting on a protest near the Olympic games in the [...]
February 29, 2008
Bags (Still) For Sale
I joined my classmates Roisin O’Connor, Rosaleen Ortiz and Mathew Warren for a walk around the “counterfeit triangle,” as Mayor Bloomberg calls it, near Centre and Canal streets to see the effects of Tuesday’s police raid of the fake bag & watch vendors.
photo by Roisin O’Connor
Just a day after the shutdown, it was easy to [...]
