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Where's Eric? Tracking NY politicians' public schedules

Note: I had mostly finished this project last weekend, before Eric Adams dropped out of the mayoral race. While Adams will still be the mayor until January, this project made more sense while he was an active candidate. WHERE'S ERIC? provides a compilation and visualization of when Eric Adams and…

Archiving Hell Gate's FYIs

Hell Gate is my favorite New York City-focused news outlet. The coverage is good and the writing tends to be exceptional. When they redesigned their website in July last year, they added a new "FYI" section, which is usually one to two sentences with a link to a story about…

Goodbye FiveThirtyEight

Back in April 2023, I was in Brooklyn to attend a live taping of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast. It was great, someone corrected Nate Silver on the U.S. constitution and former FiveThirtyEight writer Clare Malone returned for a lot of great banter backed by data. The very next week, Disney…

DoJ report on SJSU

The DoJ report is in, #SJSU actively suppressed and ignored reports of sexual harassment/assault from athletes and then retaliated against employees who tried to raise them: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-16m-agreement-remedy-title-ix-violations-san-jos-state-universityThis has been going on for over a decade but really broke open after USA Today published their explosive story in April 2020: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/04/17/san-jose-state-reinvestigates-trainer-claims-sexual-misconduct/5138353002/The…

Ode to Jeopardy!

I originally wrote this for the Spartan Daily in April 2020 to be included as a comparison of different types of loading music. It wasn't ever published, but given the new Jeopardy! season and that I just finished reading Alex Trebek's memoir, I dug it out of the archives. Answer:…

Encrypting a college newsroom with Signal

Students in San Jose State University's journalism program discuss content for an upcoming issue. Student journalists have it pretty rough. Most try to balance passing a full load of classes with running around to get the latest scoop, often without being paid. Many programs are underfunded and, as we've previously…

Choosing a web browser, updated

You're seeing the world through a web browser; what does it see about you? As part of my work on the Freedom of the Press Foundation's Digital Security Team, I updated our guide comparing the privacy and security features of popular browsers in 2020.https://freedom.press/training/-depth-guide-choosing-web-browser/

Inside Scoop - Week 4: One month later

It's been a month and I'm tired. Three newspapers again this week: Tuesday ("the shut it down issue"), Wednesday ("the 9/11 issue") and Thursday ("the Frog Dorm issue"). Tuesday: out at 1:31a.m. We had late breaking news that there was a potential security flaw in the self-checkout machines used at…

Inside Scoop - Week 3: Ready to Repeat

It was a short week, but we put out some goodish newspapers: Wednesday ("the Taco Bell issue") and Thursday ("the women's soccer issue"). Wednesday: out at 1:12a.m. Taco Bell is back in the Student Union, and honestly, for some students, it's going to be the biggest news story of the…