A personal recap, at least. Coming off more than three years building and marketing data-driven news technology at Inform.com, it was a great pleasure to delve into reporting at Annenberg in Fall 2009.
I honed my undergraduate journalism experience by reporting extensively for Neon Tommy, writing feature pieces on changes happening at alt-weekly institution LA Weekly, charter schools, Web technology and local trials. It was an eclectic mix, to say the least.
During the second semester of my first year, I began gearing up to spend the summer reporting in Cape Town, South Africa. Our class analyzed plenty of news/blog content coming out of the young democracy, and I created a blog on Posterous where we could share our thoughts while in Africa. I also worked on several Web videos as an intern at News24.com, the country’s Web-only news organization.
In Cape Town I met the founder of tech/media site Memeburn.com and signed on as their Silicon Valley correspondent. I continue to write and edit for Neon Tommy, and have also signed on as a Web editor at Truthdig.com and a freelancer at Nabewise.com.
