By far the best idea to keep the newspaper tradition alive is from Jon Stewart. Suggesting that the black ink that rubs off on your fingers be a highly addictive narcotic that absorbs into the skin. 
As we get word this week that yet another metropolitan daily is on life support, The San Francisco Chronicle. As the endangered species [...]

In case you missed it, I had an interview on the local NPR affiliate last week. You can still listen to it here.

Well… I’m in Amsterdam right now… I have no idea what time it is. When I got up this morning, or yesterday morning, to leave for Kenya I checked my usual news outlets and couldn’t help laugh at the irony of this situation. On the same day I leave for Kenya to cover the conflict [...]

Congo is a crisis without a campaign.
While the fighting in Darfur has spawned a celebrity-fueled human-rights movement, the fighting in Congo has been largely overlooked, writes the Chicago Tribune’s Paul Salopek. (By the way, Paul is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, for Explanitory Reporting & International Reporting and was the journalist who was detained in [...]

I had another opportunity to share at William Jessup Universityand hang out with a super cool group of students from the Public Policy department. They had some really meaningful questions about Africa and the existing politics involved in making what the modern African governments look like.
These guys are a sharp group and I am confident [...]

The other day I was on Surfline.com taking a look at the swell headed for N. Cal and noticed one of those Flash game advertisements. They are usually pretty obnoxious and distracting, but this one from the U.S. Air Force, was far more distracting by the message it is attempting to deliver than its level of [...]

One of my long-time favorite, and greatly influential, war photographers Alexandra Boulat,  died at the beginning of the month at such an early age. Bringing a woman’s perspective to the Middle East, in terms of a photojournalist, was incredibly insightfull.
To get an idea of some of the rare glimps that she captured check out this [...]

In a recent book review by the Wall St. Journal, they took a look at A Congregation of Customers. After reading this review I think it really made me sick, and yet I had to read it again and then send it on to my friends. Growing up in this culture and the Church this [...]