[Panel] The Future of Newsrooms

You’ve got a staff of about 200. Your task: to create a newsroom for the 21st century. Where do you put your staff? Where do you invest your resources? How many reporters do you need? What about editors, copy-editors, photographers, programmers, web producers,...
[Criticism] Inchiodati al volante

[Criticism] Inchiodati al volante

A few weeks ago a very friendly Martina Recchiuti wrote me an email asking if I’d mind if the Italian magazine, Internazionale translated and published my blog post about traffic in the developing world. Mind? I was honored of course. You can find the resulting...

A Crowd Attracts a Crowd

They say in the news business that one dead person on your block is worth 3,000 dead in a flood in India. It’s a gruesome, cynical calculation but undoubtedly one streaked with truth. Marc Cooper I have an annoying habit of comparing tragedy. A college student...
The Self-Sustainable Non-profit Oxymoron

The Self-Sustainable Non-profit Oxymoron

It was social entrepreneur day at Stanford University on two Sundays ago as part of “Entrepreneurship Week” at Stanford. I wanted to go for a number of reasons. Global Voices is in the process of incorporating into its own Non-Governmental Organization....

Ruben Navarrette

Or, “Killing the Ventriloquist, Part II.” “Yeah, hi, I have a two part question. It seems like a lot of professors, specialists, and pundits are making the same arguments as you, but doing so on their weblogs. I was wondering if a.) you follow...

Pitching Outside the Strike Zone Part IV

This post is the fourth part in a series and continues from here. A favorite pastime of both friends and family is career counseling with oso. It always starts with a emptyish complement: “you have such a natural talent for …” and then gets right to...