The Best of ’08 stories from Miller-McCune, where I’m a contributing editor, are up.
The Best of ’08 stories from Miller-McCune, where I’m a contributing editor, are up.
Nov 18th, 2008
I’m glad The New York Times finally got around to writing about the many nonprofit news sites that are doing serious journalism. In a page one story, Richard Perez-Pena pretty much re-reported the article I did for Miller-McCune back in March, focusing on the Voice of San Diego, a publication that deserves all the attention [...]
Aug 18th, 2008
I’ve been posting infrequently due to traveling for two stories and a vacation. Here are a couple recent articles…one from Miller-McCune that came out today, on a Danish professor trying to save governments billions of dollars on huge megaprojects like rail lines and conference centers, and a book review in the San Francisco Chronicle of [...]
Aug 4th, 2008
There’s a ton of academic research out there on social capital, the idea popularized by Harvard’s Robert Putnam that community and social ties are actually worth something. Public health researchers have only in the last few years begun incorporating the concept directly into programs that might help people. I wrote about the promising results of [...]