Selected recent clips:
FAVORITES
Turn on, log in, opt out?: Morozov, Lanier, and others consider the future of the Internet
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2013
Stock Up Now Before It’s Too Late: Should you buy a year’s supply of freeze-dried food?
Slate, 12/3/12
Self-Regulation Done Right: How Scandinavia’s press councils keep the media accountable
Columbia Journalism Review, 4/24/12
Occupy Scandinavia’s Long Winter
The Awl, 1/18/12
AOL Settled with Unpaid “Volunteers” for $15 Million: Why the HuffPost bloggers won’t be so lucky
Columbia Journalism Review, 2/10/11
NYC NEWS
A Mission to Cover Up the (Lightly) Radioactive Legacy of Ridgewood
Capital New York, 11/14/12
Defend Brooklyn: Steve Earle, Mary Karr, and many more gather to support struggling Red Hook
Capital New York, 11/15/12
A Truly Fateful Night: Flonarza Byas was an unlucky man
The Uptown Chronicle, 1/22/10
MEDIA REPORTING
Scandinavian Public Media Fight for Their Right to Grow: Potential regulatory changes spell an uncertain future
Columbia Journalism Review, 5/31/12
[Complete series of Scandinavian media reports available here]
Tweeting a Wildfire: Social media in an emergency
Columbia Journalism Review, 9/30/10
Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine: What The Daily can learn
Columbia Journalism Review, 2/4/11
MEDIA CRITICISM
LAUREL: The Oregonian and Village Voice Media help to de-sensationalize a story
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2011
DART: The Portland Press Herald blurred an important line with its donation of ads during an election
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2011
LAUREL: A Texas Monthly reporter and an intrepid attorney worked to free an innocent man
Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2011
BUSINESS & TECH
Postage Due: The USPS is running out of money. Where does that leave magazines?
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2012
John Paton’s Big Bet: Journal Register Company’s “Digital First” philosophy
Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 2011
Zagat Remains a Profitable Brand: Does it matter that it hasn’t won the web?
Columbia Journalism Review, 11/16/10
BOOKS
An essay on The Life Swap, by Nancy Weber (1975)
The Airship, 3/19/13
Elizabeth Cline’s Cure for Throwaway Fashion: “Slow Clothes”
Capital New York, 6/21/12
Anatomy of a Journalist: Janet Malcolm’s Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Columbia Journalism Review, 4/13/11
ART & FILM
Edward Gorey art, books and ephemera, collected by an admirer who was his friend until death
Capital New York, 3/9/12
Making of a Modernist: Djuna Barnes’ Newspaper Days on Display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Capital New York, 2/13/12
When Bad Journalism Kills: An essay on Absence of Malice
Columbia Journalism Review, 7/15/11
HUMOR/WEIRD STUFF
12 Hours of Huffing: A HuffPost Live Viewing Diary
Fast Company, 8/17/12
Olympic Dreams
The Hairpin, 7/30/12
Farting Puppets: The Terrific, Bizarre World of Danish Kids’ TV
The Awl, 3/22/12