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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the hardest things I’ve encountered in journalism is simplifying complex government matters. In a recent case, the Syracuse City School District proposed a shuffle of students and staff involving 10 schools – two of which would officially be closed but remain in use temporarily housing students from other schools undergoing renovation. It would [...]

I’ve been working now for just over a year and thought that now would be the right time to try and log some interesting lessons that I’ve learned during that time. I also want to ask one question that I still don’t know how to answer.