Cringe & Binge: Women of Squid Game are a script-writing cliche
I finished Squid Game before bed yesterday and ended up tossing and turning all night trying to make sense of it. It was a crazy, anxiety-inducing ride, and though I had fun watching it, the women characters are abysmal. ***Spoiler Alert*** I really enjoyed Squid...
A list of every journalism movie & TV show I can find
This is a working list of movies about journalists or journalism or in some cases, movies that just have journalists as main characters. Some of these are true stories or loosely based on truth; others are pure fiction. Many are serious, informative and inspirational;...
Young Americans don’t evaluate online information
We had lots of journalism-class discussions about echo chambers, filter bubbles, confirmation bias, hyperpartisan sites and fake news this semester. It has been an interesting end to the year. In all of the above, the finger is...
Pardon for Snowden?
The Washington Post published an editorial last week saying Obama should not pardon Edward Snowden, as various global groups ramp up their pardon campaign and Oliver Stone's new movie opens in theatres. ("Snowden," a fictionalized version of the documentary...
Visit Pluto in VR
Check out Pluto with this new 360/Google Cardboard VR video from The New York Times. They used data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft that passed the planet last summer. This is exactly what VR should be used for: to transport viewers to a place they can never...
And The Panama Papers Continue
Here come more names. Today, May 9, at 2pm EST (that's actually 2am May 10 Hong Kong time) the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is going to release a searchable database of more than 200,000 secret offshore companies, including the names of...
The nine Google Cardboard virtual-reality journalism ‘experiences’
Google Cardboard is cheap and, relatively, easy virtual reality. With all the talk about the intersection of VR and journalism, at the moment there are only nine Google cardboard journalism pieces. The rest are games, sponsored content, travel, tours or art....
A druglord, two actors and a 10,000 word story
With a new semester that includes Longform Journalism, I'd thought we'd kick off with a look at the bizarre story that involves Mexico's biggest drug lord, a famous American actor and, arguably, the US's biggest pop-culture magazine. Here's a good New York Times story...
The Art of the Tough Interview
This new article in CJR by Gerald Eskenazi on the fine art of reading the moment and asking the right question in an interview starts with Donald Trump and ends with Muhammad Ali. Never thought I'd see those two names in print together. But Eskenazi has the skill to...
How They Did It Part I & II
A super interesting and useful post from Journalism Tools on Medium that not only lists 22 online storytelling tools but also shows relevant news examples of each tool from various media organisations. Excellent examples of programming and journalism coming together...