Today, I’d like to announce the official content platform for homeless running nonprofit Back on My Feet. I announced in February my taking a job with the Center City-based organization that uses running clubs to create support around homeless populations seeking to move forward. From my first interview, I highlighted the need to use a [...]

Well that’s a nice perk of the job. It wasn’t so long  after I started my job as national media director at homeless running nonprofit Back on My Feet that I was presented with what would be a rewarding opportunity. Not so long  at all after I first started talking about how traditional marketing was [...]

*Updated @ 9:36 a.m. 12/23/09 **Much thanks to Jess Durkin for others. I don’t think anyone’s arguing that a big portion of the future of news will be this hyperlocal movement that continues to dominate the conversation and has grown in focus for many years. So, I’m surprised to say I haven’t been able to [...]

It’s about finding the right mix. I’m working with a couple, following many and thinking about a great number more hyperlocal, niche and other online-only news sites in this country of ours. I talk a lot about where content comes from in a healthy, efficient news-gathering entity today or in the near future. Whether it [...]

I’ve written about social media here more than I’d probably like to admit. These social networking sites are transforming the way we receive our news and information. There’s no secret there. But they keep popping up, so much so that I’ve stopped joining them, because I never know when enough’s enough. Newspapers are still figuring [...]

Boxing legend Joe Frazier is again the focus of a story of mine, though this time I’ve filed a Frazier piece for SportsIllustrated.com, likely the most recognizable brand in sports reporting for a half-century. “Smokin’” Joe Frazier is still fighting. The former heavyweight champion of the world is 65 now, and his mind isn’t nearly [...]

Chris Hardwick, a freelancer and contributor to Wired magazine, rocked out two popular self-help, time-management guides – the Four Hour Work Week and Never Check Your E-mail in the Morning – and broke it down for the average freelance journalist or writer. Well, as a freelancer myself, I am often looking for better methods to [...]

Ever think about the best stories you’ve ever read? What’s special about newsprint is how we clip those stories. We save them. I wanted to collect my favorite journalism pieces of my short life and share them with you. I have wanted to do this for sometime. Below, find my five favorite and a slew [...]

This is the story of how more than 20 statehouse reporters fooled me into believing I had a hot-breaking story – for the second time in a month. Last week I posted that a personal essay of mine was accepted by the Columbia Journalism Review and appeared on the CJR Web site. My essay touched [...]

The Columbia Journalism Review finally came to its senses and realized it can’t survive without my work. …Sorta. On Wednesday, a personal essay of mine was featured on the CJR Web site. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell will be named Sen. Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate, a high-ranking source in the administration told the Patriot-News. [...]