How an App Creates ‘Disturbingly Agile Millennial Thumbs’ Isabella Kwai, a reporter in Australia, rarely takes notes on paper anymore and instead uses her iPhone. She can still look sources in the eye while typing. Read More…
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Digital Privacy Is a Big Concern in Europe. For This Reporter, Too. When the investigative journalist Matt Apuzzo moved from Washington to Brussels, he noticed that distrust had a different focus. And he adjusted some of his own tech tools. Read More…
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Hurricanes. Shootings. Fires. Time for an Editor’s Emergency Kit. When news of natural disasters or man-made ones break in the U.S., Julie Bloom taps a variety of tools to communicate with reporters, edit stories and get them published. Read More…
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An Intensely Personal Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest “Go Ahead in the Rain,” by the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, is a love letter to the pioneering hip-hop group. Read More…
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http://twitter.com/#!/Toure/status/236195384614060032 Oh. Good. Lord. This afternoon on MSNBC’s farcical “The Cycle,” professional race card wielder and hack Touré suggested that Romney, in referring to the Obama campaign as angry, is demonizing Obama by “otherization,” or “niggerization.” Yes, really. Breitbart.com’s Ben Shapiro has more: “That really bothered me. You notice he said anger twice. He’s really…
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‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden In this memoir, Mitchell S. Jackson writes about a lifetime of losses and near escapes, nesting his own story among those of his friends and relatives. Read More…
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Quora, the Q. and A. Site, Says Data Breach Affected 100 Million Users Some users seemed less surprised by the security breach than by the fact that they had a Quora account in the first place. Read More…
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http://twitter.com/#!/Mosheh/status/334334185265315842 Curious as to how the NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond feels about the IRS targeting conservative organizations? This morning, MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts asked him that very question. The answer may surprise you — if by “surprise,” you mean “not remotely surprise”: .@naacp‘s Julian Bond approves of #IRS going after Tea Party “who are admittedly…
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Most States Don’t Require Specific Financial Literacy Classes A new report gave only Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia an A for their efforts. There’s a debate on how best to teach the subject. Read More…
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The Must-Have When Reporting on Disasters: A Satellite Phone Thomas Fuller, San Francisco bureau chief, knows you cannot rely on cell networks during earthquakes, wildfires and other breaking news catastrophes. Read More…
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