Clips
Investigative and analytic journalism — Enterprise stories based on data analysis and public documents gathering.
Data visualization — Telling stories by making data visual, using SQL Server and ASP.NET to generate XML or HTML that to drive interactives.
Music beat — Interviews with and reviews of musicians and their bands.
Technology — Coverage of computing and consumer electronics dating back to the earlier days of the PC.
Features — Capturing slices of life, including my brief foray as a columnist.
Broadcasting — Behind the microphone at WPDH-FM, a 50,000-watt rock station in upstate New York.
About the clips
My professional journalism career began with a microphone and cassette deck, covering town board meetings for a radio station. Always a music lover, I’d spent my first years of college wanting to be a pro rock DJ, and I got my wish during my sophomore year. But when the station’s news director offered me the chance to write and tell stories, I never looked back.
The radio gig connected me to local print journalists, and soon I made the leap to a daily newspaper. I landed an internship, and the paper hired me a couple months later to write obits, cover the police beat and eventually report on local government. But soon enough, the lure of music grabbed me again, and I moved to the features staff to write features, including band profiles and concert reviews.
The management persuaded me to edit and lead a section, which I did, but not long after that another attraction caught my eye — technology, computers and programming. I caught the bug enough to pursue a master’s degree in computer science, and that led to the second act of my career — practitioner of precision journalism in the big city. Those are the eras here — for places and dates, see my resume.
