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Activism as communication strategy
If you want to communicate, you have to organize
While this place is changing at a rapid pace, the essence and wildness and promise of the Mountain West remains intact and is worth fighting for.
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Do more media collaborations
Advocacy, Community, Accountability.
The lesson here is that most reporters also want to improve and humanize their workplaces and, by extension, their cities, counties, states and the nation. We have to learn to work with local reporters in particular, to tell better stories.
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Storytelling: Amor & Exile, the book
A surprising narrative that remains newsworthy in 2021
Amor and Exile is the story of American citizens who fall in love with undocumented immigrants only to find themselves trapped in a legal labyrinth, stymied by their country’s de facto exclusion of their partners.
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Four years ago, a small group at Boise State launched The Blue Review with a quote post from Walter Lippmann,...
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For the past two years or so, I have been slowly learning to code, and I’m doing it for one...
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In this sense, the new rise of data journalism mirrors the age old spectrum of the news industry, from yellow...
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I’ve been working on an idea for the Knight Foundation News Challenge on data and communities and wanted to share the...
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Awesome animal copyright fact: All chimp photos and paintings are public domain. The Office will not register works produced by...
I’m doing some reading on the open data movement for a new project that we will announce in a few...
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Congress is back in session and 2014 will be another do-or-die year for immigration reform. To promote meaningful debate and...
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Book Trailer for Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love Across America’s Borders, the book I wrote with Nicole Salgado....
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Copied below is my proposal, to be submitted today, for an Interdisciplinary Studies MA in Data Journalism at Boise State....
