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…
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…
It feels like forever ago, but at the end of the Spring 2019 semester, I was chosen as the next executive editor of the Spartan Daily. I definitely felt a lot of pressure to keep up high quality newspaper that my predecessors put out three days a week. But at…
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:…
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…
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/
Each semester the Spartan Daily staff puts out a special issue that focuses on a specific topic or concept. It allows for an in-depth exploration of something that the San Jose State community is interested in. Previous topics have included race, gender and home. The special issue normally comes toward…
In 2016, I made the decision to go back to school and pursue a degree in journalism. I had briefly dabbled in it in middle school, but really had no idea what I was getting myself into. I started at De Anza College, as a member of the La Voz…
Privacy is a right - not an earned privileged. Read more about how the proposed EARN IT Act would threaten that right in my column in the latest Spartan Daily: https://issuu.com/spartandaily/docs/sd031220all (page 2)
The second installment of my Spartan Daily tech column, Binary Bombshells, is out! I discuss design flaws in Twitter that lead to harassment and how Mastodon addresses some of them: https://sjsunews.com/article/binary-bombshells-twitters-tools-help-online-harassers
After a pretty hectic last semester, I'm taking a much more backseat role on the Spartan Daily for hopefully my final semester at San Jose State. I'm going to be the new "Science & Tech Editor" - yes, I invented my own position. I am currently planning for a science…
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…
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…
We put out three papers this week: Tuesday ("the pride issue"), Wednesday ("the football team wants to win issue"), and Thursday ("the parking issue"). Tuesday: out at 1:30a.m. We mostly tried too hard on this issue. We tried to do a cutout on the front page plus a text-wrap illustration,…
It's been a minute, but school started on Wednesday, and we had to put out another issue (10MB PDF). It turned out pretty nicely I think. We started working on it a few weeks beforehand, assigning stories, and then beginning to meet up and layout the pages starting a week…