Category: Thoughts & Theory

Since letting my dead-tree edition of the news die several months back, I’ve been searching for comics to brighten a few moments of my day. What the Duck is a daily read, as is Dilbert. But last month I came across Surviving the World, and today’s is a great example. (Go ahead, read them all. I did …)

Can’t tell you how many of these photo-themed t-shirts I want … just can’t tell you.

I am not an overly sentimental guy, but I give thanks for what I’ve been given every day. My family, my friends, my career and, for more than 20 years, my passion for storytelling through visuals. My friend Sean Elliot posted a link to the Help Portrait site yesterday and it has me thinking – and wanting to give back...

Mark Briggs, who wrote the excellent Journalism 2.0 primer that I’ve used in several classes, posed the question at the National College Media Conference to three folks – how do you define what is good in digital journalism? The answers move from vague to comical (“Journalists need to discover their sense of mission. Otherwise it’s just going to be a...