Warning: This will be long, and sappy, and sentimental, and all things cliche. But, hopefully, it's still uplifting and interesting. My "summer" internship at the LA Times is almost over. It's lasted from April until now, and I could stay longer. I swore you'd have to drag me out of "dream internship" kicking and screaming, as I clung to the massive walls of the still-impressive building Read More...
Story of my life: This is a few weeks overdue. Launched a new app at the beginning of this month, tracking Prop 19 campaign contributions, which you can see at http://projects.latimes.com/prop19 (more...)
Despite being months out of school, I'm still relatively obsessed with teaching and learning. That's part of what makes journalism these days fun -- we learn about our subject matters, and we learn new tools for information display. But the training of new journos has a special place in my heart. Every day, I benefit from the teachers in my life at the LAT, and elsewhere in the community Read More...
UPDATE: More later, but if you missed the geekery and fantastic exchange of knowledge that you get with a phenomenally sharp, inquisitive and dedicated group like the #wjchatters, you can find the transcript here. Tomorrow, Wed. Sept. 8, we'll be discussing "Finding the story in the data" at #wjchat, and I have been tapped to host Read More...
My days continue to putter along at the delightful dream job that is working at the LAT Data Desk. Some work is public-facing, a lot is internal to the LAT, but it's always a learning experience. Recently, I had the opportunity (okay, was tasked with) getting some information out of our archives into a database structure Read More...
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