Three recently shared numbers stand out to me as being incredibly powerful, evocative and important for the future of Philadelphia: 8,456 The tiny, 0.6 increase in Philadelphia’s population from the 2000 to the 2010 U.S. Census, a small grow that halts an enormous trend: 50 years of population loss from a 1950 height of 2.1 [...]

Late at a bar in my neighborhood, a friend asked me: how are you innovative? His general assessment was that Technically Media, a consultancy, and Technically Philly, a news site, weren’t particularly innovative or interesting for 2011. We’re an online-based startup of 20-somethings creating journalism-fueled content. That might barley bass for envelope-pushing in the late [...]

Last year, I left a position at a homeless advocacy nonprofit and returned to the journalism startup I helped launch. After sharing last month some of the member interviews I collected while working at Back on My Feet, I realized there were other lessons I wanted to share. I worked for Back on My Feet [...]

Tradition matters to me. It gives us culture. It is a way to pay remembrance for those who came before. Yes, it’s a little bit fun. In the world of news, there is a lot of tradition that needs to be lost. Unquestioned impartiality, balance without real context, an ignorance and distance of what funds [...]

During presentations, we at Technically Media have talked about our failures. We do a lot of speaking (me too), so we’ve also touched on the power of working in threes. But I think we haven’t touched on what I think is our most innovative reason for sticking together for more than two years: our meeting [...]

Above, TED co-founder Chris Anderson talks about the impact of Youtube and other online video has on the world. Youtube was a powerful part of moving forward content dissemination on the web. Suddenly there was a free place to host, distribute and embed easily video that drove traffic and audience. About which time Youtube was [...]

Someone with great influence and interest in the future of news and journalism once spoke with great concern of the loss of serendipity. When someone picks up a newspaper, she shared, that reader is very likely to come across a story he didn’t expect or otherwise know about. In fumbling with pages and jumps, a [...]

It came to mind that I toss around a handful of phrases with enough frequency and a long enough time that I feel they have sufficiently affected how I orient myself to what is around me. Maybe some will have meaning to you. Fifty percent of people are better off than you, and 50 percent [...]

I was asked what it is I actually enjoy about this journalism world, its form and practice. So I rattled off some answers: I like writing I like telling stories. I like getting a little bit closer to truth. I like focusing on different conversations. I love asking questions and learning. All of my interest [...]

You can learn a lot by looking at what you’ve done over a year. So, while I try to get better at making goals and sticking to them, I have an eye to my work here, because this has always been a place for experimentation and learning, where I develop my thoughts, my writing and [...]