We’ve Launched, Part 2
Public Business is now launched in London as well as New York. More video goodies, thanks to Flashboy: Public Business Launch, London, Part 1 from Maha Atal on Vimeo. Public Business Launch, London,...
View ArticleHow Information Travels
For the past few days, I’ve been reporting round-the-clock on the Pakistani fallout of the bin Laden assassination. In the process, I’ve been able to play a small part in one of the fascinating...
View ArticleA poor blueprint for digital journalism
I wrote a post yesterday for the Public Business blog about the disappointing research on digital journalism that Columbia Journalism School put out last week. It speaks to a number of the business...
View ArticleHackgate and the case for collaborative reporting
A post up at Public Business on the U.K. phone hacking scandal and what the way the story was revealed tells us about the power of collaborative reporting: Stories this complex, with tentacles that...
View ArticleThe Stratfor Emails
On Sunday night, Wikileaks began releasing its latest cache of documents, this time a set of 5 million emails from Stratfor, the self-described ‘global intelligence’ company. The emails are the result...
View ArticleHas the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?
That’s the title of a panel I recently moderated on behalf of Public Business, featuring New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia, Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon, Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleHow Unilever Got Caught Discriminating Against Women (And My Part in Getting...
It’s been a very good week for journalism and feminism. It actually started a few weeks ago, when my friend Kate wrote a piece about a contest she’d entered to win a commercial space flight. The...
View ArticleDavid Miranda Is A Journalist
This weekend, the British government detained David Miranda, for nine hours at Heathrow Airport, where they also confiscated some flash drives and laptops. The detention took place under the UK’s...
View ArticleOn Charlie Hebdo and the culture of free expression
I’ve been trying to avoid writing about Charlie Hebdo, so I’ll keep this short. I won’t add to the debate about whether the cartoons were offensive to Muslims, or racist to France’s minorities, or just...
View ArticleSome Things I’ve Written, or I’m Still Alive
Though I’ve been very quiet on here since starting my PhD, I have actually been commenting quite a bit elsewhere on these here interwebs. For those who aren’t on Twitter (where I do extensive...
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