Great piece by Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review this week about journalism ethics and how science works: A journalist’s guide to the scientific method – and why it’s important Intuitively we know that the scientific method of research, hypothesis, testing and revision is what we do as journalists. Niles details the connections nicely and […]

So many complain about how much the US imports from other countries. Yet, when a change occurs for the US to export, the story gets lost or ignored. Well, that is not completely fair. The Americus, Ga., media covered the event. NPR covered it. VOA covered it. Even the Economist covered it. But the Atlanta […]

Got just a short posting about a friend’s review of the world’s highest bar. (FYI, it’s in Hong Kong.) The issue of who pays for the food and drink at a restaurant to be reviewed for most Americans is a no-brainer. But that is not necessarily so in the rest of the world. And my […]

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. The article below was posted on boosharticles.com today. Too bad there is no such country as the Dominican Republic of Congo Ordinarily such a glaring error by the writer would be caught by the editor. But I am willing to bet all the money in my pocket against […]

First posted at DC SPJ. Storify is a great resource to assemble social media postings into a coherent story. Andy Carvin of NPR has been in the forefront of working social media to tell the story of the Arab uprisings. His latest example is a Storify posting that quickly debunked an assertion that Israeli arms […]