by David Sasaki | Feb 22, 2008 | English
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,...
by David Sasaki | Jan 1, 2008 | English
I’ve been meaning to write about a recent episode of the World Technology Podcast on the so-called death of foreign correspondance and Paul Steiger’s recent front page reflection on the history and future of the newspaper industry in the Wall Street...
by David Sasaki | Dec 22, 2007 | English
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...
by David Sasaki | Apr 19, 2007 | English
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...
by David Sasaki | Mar 12, 2007 | Global Voices
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....
by David Sasaki | Jan 13, 2006 | English
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...
by David Sasaki | Jul 21, 2005 | English
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...
by David Sasaki | Mar 17, 2005 | English
Via Sparsh Interesting conversation