February 2012
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January 2012
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C'est moi: It girl for a day →
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December 2011
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Why Journalists Don’t Drink Like They Used To
“Journalism only became respectable a few decades ago. Thirty years back, Ivy Leaguers would never dream of entering the field.”
Watch the full video interview with Calvin Trillin here.
You can say the same thing about smoking, I guess. Societal norms (and employers) are quite disapproving of vices…
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November 2011
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“Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because...”
– Louis C.K. (via Briana Mowrey)
Spoken like a true father of daughters.
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WatchI’ve kind of missed seeing Rahm on TV..
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“On November 14, while Silvio Berlusconi was heading to the Quirinale to resign...”
– Read the rest of this article here.
Inspiring to see there are still people for whom art comes first.
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The Procreant Urge →
Why is quitting the hardest thing? Because of:
Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.
We like to imagine our heroes always doing that hardest thing—walking away with their glory intact. We didn’t like it when, a few years after supposedly retiring with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan donned a Washington Wizards jersey. It bothers us that The Godfather: Part III...
October 2011
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C.J. Chivers: Alive Day, Joao Silva. →
cjchivers:
October 23, 2011 marks the passing of a year since Joao Silva stepped on a landmine in southern Afghanistan, losing both legs and suffering other injuries from which he is still recovering. Please join Joao’s family and friends in wishing him well — and a long, full life, the value of which he understands better than most any of us — on his first Alive Day.
Above is a photograph...
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Why aren't there more black designers? →
“While success in the fashion world may not display a racial bias, Essence writer Robin Givhan notes black designers seem to have a tougher time reaching international acclaim.” Continue reading here.
September 2011
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WatchClick to read my latest feature for msnbc.com. I interviewed Thomas Franklin of NorthJersey.com and wrote about his 9/11 documentary that looks at the photojournalists who covered the horrible events that day.
Check out the full documentary here.
August 2011
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A warning
The safety advisories sent out by the International News Safety Institute on Tuesday to journalists covering the UK riots said it all: “Bring a mobile phone with emergency numbers pre-set for speed dialing; bring eye protection such as swimming goggles; carry first-aid kits and know how to use them; wear loose, natural-fabric clothing as it will not burn as readily as synthetics; and...
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Watch‘You’re not as smart as you think,’ it seems to say to me…
Not counting a few months spent on summer breaks in Europe during my college years, I’ve been living in the United States for six years now. I like to think I’m fairly well adjusted to the life here, and fairly familiar with U.S. culture, particularly of the pop kind.
Then something like this comes...
July 2011
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America's newest citizens, just in time for... →
I attended a naturalization ceremony yesterday in a lower Manhattan courthouse and then wrote my first original story for msnbc.com.
June 2011
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“Journalism is for the young. Young people who go into journalism as a calling...”
– - Gay Talese for Vanity Fair 06/2011
Some days I need encouragement, and for someone to reassure me that all this was, is and will be worth it.
“If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody’s...”
– David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Word.
May 2011
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WatchThe loud, the proud, the poor, the incredibly talented 2011 J-school grads.
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WatchThis is a story I worked on with two of my classmates. I profiled exiled Sri Lankan journalist Poddala Jayantha, who was abducted and severely beaten in 2009 for exposing corruption and promoting press freedom. Jayantha now lives under political asylum on Staten Island with his wife and daughter. He has been unable to find work as a journalist and he struggles every day with English and making...
April 2011
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March 2011
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“These local oligarchs lack any dimension of ethics, discourage competition, and...”
– - Stefan Candea (Click here to read the full story.)
This is an excellent piece about the pathetic state of journalism in Romania. In my country’s case, the regime change kept many Communist bad apples in place, which have poisoned and keep poisoning the media with their selfish interests.
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“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...”
– George Orwell, Why I Write (1946)
In this same essay Orwell also calls every book a failure. And I get that. For some reason, the pieces I envision never show up on paper - and that messes me up and frustrates me until I forget about it and move on to a new assignment, a new idea. Who knows, maybe...
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WatchA colleague and I produced this video a while ago, but I forgot to publish it here.
In late October, an advocacy group known as Hispanics Across America began pushing for New York City bodega owners to arm themselves with guns in an effort to protect themselves during late-night robberies. While some of the 14,000 bodega owners in the city have joined Hispanics Across America in arming...
January 2011
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“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E. B. White, Here is New York
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Inside the Ice Hotel. Balea Lac, Romania.
12/27/10
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Balea Lac, Romania
Taken 12/27/10
December 2010
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WatchA colleague and I co-produced this video.
I can never get over how happy people are when they seem to be doing exactly what they want to be doing in life.
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Concerts and such
Robb and I saw The Walkmen last night at Terminal 5, and I loved every minute of their performance.
The Walkmen got started during the New York City rock renaissance of the early 2000s, alongside bands like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But its music now sounds just right for a certain recessionary mood: bleary, frustrated, cranky, heartsick and gallows-humored. It could easily ...
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Urban Weapons
Today, I saw a woman carrying her long umbrella on her shoulder, holding it as you would a spear you are about to throw at your target. She wrapped her fingers tight around the upper half of the stem. Lean and proud, she walked fast and looked like someone you wouldn’t want to mess with.
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I lost my balance on the train and...
November 2010
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