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 [...]

This fall, I started doing something on the Back on My Feet blog that should probably be the first step of every community news site ever: a weekly aggregated roundup of existing news on homelessness. It’s something I advocate to any content creator in which I am involved. A primary rule of anyone with mission [...]

Beginnings say as much about who begins them as they do about what they begin. Journalists and writers, of professional kind or independent and online, take very seriously the ledes they produce and how others see them. It’s very likely that I have had harsher scrutiny for ledes I’ve written than for anything else, and [...]

Travel is most often the privilege of the privileged. Two years ago last month, I was returning from a trip that was certainly a great privilege. If you can’t go out to eat with friends without referencing something you learned or experienced from some travel experience you had, then I think you’re doing it wrong. [...]