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Students from my school, the Institut Européen de Journalisme, are competing in the annual Défi Express. It is a competition for journalism schools where students create a special 20-page dossier for the local edition of L’Express, a national news magazine. Continue reading →
Quantifying Goodness
My friend and KMZ REB collaborator Adrian Hornsby has spent the past few years devoted to a most unusual project: creating a complicated system to accurately measure what was once considered immeasurable – ‘goodness’. Continue reading →
My Students Are Awesome
Now that I teach at the Institut Européen de Journalisme in Marseille, I am faced with a quandary when discussing the future of my students. On one hand, this is a time of great doomsaying, especially for print journalism. One need only glance at the following graph to grasp the cynicism:
A glorious life
Death is so often a time of sadness and reflection. But, today, with news of the passing of George Whitman, I am mostly filled with a sense of awe and respect. George died at the age of 98. Continue reading →
Gold Medal
Accolades are always welcome and this week I’ve learned an essay I wrote about the value of dissent for Ode Magazine has won the gold medal in the Best Single Article/Feature category at the annual Folio Magazine awards. Continue reading →
World’s Biggest Market
Marco Polo Press in Taipei, Taiwan has released a complex Chinese edition of Time Was Soft There/Books, Baguettes, and Bedbugs. Continue reading →
