The newest issue of two.one.five magazine features a story I wrote after spending a day with Buzz Bissinger, driving through Philadelphia, discussing the tenth anniversary of his book A Prayer for the City. We discussed the Nutter administration, Street’s “horrendous, bizzare” personality, and whether or not Ed Rendell truly saved the city during his tenure [...]
NewsAssist: Neighborhood citizens have always looked to community newspapers as a reliable source of geographic information. Today, the far reach of the Internet has made it even easier to connect with these niche communities. Yet, the small budgets of these local daily and weekly publications inhibit quality online content and digital distribution. NewsAssist will empower [...]
Last night’s World Series victory was celebrated widely throughout Philadelphia, and fans converged on Center City to share the moment. As the night progressed, at times, the joy became chaotic. Near City Hall, the scene was intense as a traffic pole was brought to the ground, falling on a woman, causing police in riot gear [...]
In June, 26-year-old David Cohn—relishing his recent $340,000 grant from the Knight Foundation—stood before a group of 50 journalists at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference answering questions. Yet, he couldn’t keep his mind off Shel Silverstein’s poem, “Whatif.”
“It’s about a kid who’s like, ‘what if this happens in my sleep,’ or ‘what if that [...]
Paula Sen, Terrance McNeil, and I interviewed nine Kensington residents this past weekend, for their thoughts on the upcoming election. They shared their views, concerns, and hopes for November 4th. The following multimedia package was created to highlight their main concerns utilizing a tag cloud to show which concerns were greater, and accompanying video is [...]
I purchased a 500gb LaCie Hard Disk designed by Neil Poulton today (thankfully, since my Zoom H2 recorder files were slowly being recycled to make room for the next batch). To be honest, I have no idea who Neil Poulton is, but it’s a beautiful hard drive for the price. Since it’s been resting on [...]
Brewing beer isn’t much different than baking Rice Krispies treats. It’s a lot of cereal grain, sugar and waiting around for the good stuff.
Boil some fresh water and add malt. Choose any combination of hops, rice, corn or wheat for flavor, allow yeast to feed on the malt sugars – and alcohol is formed. Let [...]
Would Chad Wanzek answer his phone Saturday as he walked around Philadelphia letting strangers control his day? Outlook not so good.
As he asked his Mattel Magic 8-Ball if he should return my call, the triangular answer settling through blue-bubble goo, serendipity was on my side. If it wasn’t fate, then I should probably credit [...]
New York Times reporter, blogger and video star David Carr was at the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in Philadelphia this weekend reminding alt–weeklies they can keep their ships afloat. He stressed the importance of multimedia as staff cutbacks, the uncertainty of profit and the uncharted push to the Internet continue to challenge the [...]
My group for Temple University’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab trekked up and down Frankford Avenue on Saturday to document the bi-annual clean-up. After Philadelphia Brewing Company shared a few of their kegs with us and volunteers, we put together this multimedia package to show what they accomplished. Click on for the goods.
