Why journalism is exciting, or how Web freedom makes me happy

Whenever someone asks me what I’m studying I cringe as I manage to squeak out the word — “journalism.” They freeze up, mention something about how they don’t read the newspaper or think the media is dying while criticizing me.
Here’s the kicker, I’m not cringing at journalism, I’m cringing at people who don’t know the [...]

Business desk internship at The Morning Call

I started my internship at The Morning Call right after Memorial Day. On my first day I wrote a story from a press release.
The story went over well enough, got some decent feedback from people that read it and know me personally. I enjoyed the rush of making phone calls and getting something ready for [...]

For journalism to evolve, look at biology

I was having a great conversation about evolution last week. Pretty standard fair actually: niche roles, adaptation, survival and speciation (wherein a subgroup chooses desirable traits that aren’t possessed by the larger population and once those traits are the focus interbreeding stops).
And then it hit me.
Journalism needs to evolve just like species do biologically. We [...]