It’s a good feeling to know that you can handle whatever is thrown at you. Our small evening team proved that recently when we handled a breaking news situation in which officers shot a man who threatened them with a weapon in a very public place. While coordinating the coverage and reporting was exciting, I [...]

April 26th was a very exciting day at work. Central New York was hit by some very strong and very sudden thunderstorms, complete with flood waters and damaging hail. The newsroom became a bustle of activity, even long after the downpour had ended. In the Web Unit, we crushed our previous record number of visits [...]

I was recently honored by a request from a Newhouse school professor to write an essay for his class blog. My essay joins a handful of others from recent Newhouse grads who now work in online or multimedia journalism. Why is this post called “Monkeys and men?” You’ll just have to click here to find [...]

You may have heard that winter weather is a big story throughout much of the Northeast – including Central New York. Recently we ran a story about how the large snowfalls made parking arduous, and bus driving downright difficult by extension. While not something I wrote from the ground up, I took significant artistic license [...]

As a Syracuse University grad, being a basketball fan is unavoidable. As a student, I took turns with my friends camping out in anticipation of a big game. We even painted ourselves orange and were pictured in Sports Illustrated’s 2006 March Madness edition. Now, about four years later, I had the opportunity to write about [...]