Enthusiasm and dynamic, focused discussions marked last week’s Online News Association09 Conference and Awards Ceremony in San Francisco, in sharp contrast to other gatherings of journalists that I have attended this year. One might say it almost seemed like “irrational exuberance.”

Working in Prague on July 4th with college students on a cross-cultural multimedia project, I think about the future of journalism in the United States.  The aspirations of our Founding Fathers were encoded in key documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Among our cherished freedoms, articulated in the [...]

The international reaction to the video that circulated last weekend showing the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, point to the challenges and realities facing the the practice of journalism in the Internet Age. Bill Mitchell , Leader of News Transformations at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla., wrote an excellent article [...]

Yesterday was Father’s Day in the United States. I am apart from my family working in Prague as a multimedia coach on a project being undertaken by the University of Miami and colleagues at VSOP in the Czech Republic. In the early afternoon, my fellow coach Ami Vitale informed me of the YouTube video, now [...]