Notes related to the earthquake story
I received an email late last night asking “Joey, I thought The Olympia (33 floors) was the 2nd tallest bldg in Hamilton. How high is 100 King?” Here’s my response: The Olympia has more floors at 33, but is “only” 98.0 m tall. The Stelco Tower is 103.0…
Journalists and access – is it worth selling out?
I know I’m a little late on this horse, but I feel I need to speak to it. Jon Stewart of *The Daily Show *put the spotlight on one of the worse practices of some journalists – valuing their “special relationships” and access to the subjects they are…
Covering the Earthquake
Earthquake – is one word enough for my lede paragraph? If you don’t think so, feel free to come up with your own earth shattering pun. Wednesday started quietly for me. I left my place just after 7:30am as I do every day. I walked about five minutes…
Jeff Mahoney on the hot seat
The Spectator’s Jeff Mahoney will be on the hot seat tomorrow at the Art Gallery of Hamilton following a controversial column he penned about an AGH fundraiser. I don’t really know much about the AGH event and haven’t paid enough attention to the controversy to speak to it…
Will I make it back to the newsroom in time?
I keep saying that I’ll update this blog and never do. I use Twitter, but complain that 140 characters isn’t enough to express all short ideas. I use this blog, but think I have to express long ideas. I’ve started to think of this blog as a similar…
Folded transfers
While boarding a Barton bus this afternoon, my folded transfer slip refused to cooperate by straightening for display to the operator of the bus.The operator looked at me with a smile, nothing nefarious, as I tried to display the transfer.At that moment, I could not help but remember…
YA health and dental plan scandal
(YA = Yet Another – I’m programming right now and using that “speak”) Eye on the UVSS, an excellent watchdog blog written by David. J.A. Foster, has an interesting write-up about a student union health and dental plan scandal which involves the University of Victoria Student Society decreasing…
A change of venues
As many of you found out yesterday morning from my Twitter feed, I’ve been hired by The Hamilton Spectator as a summer intern.. I’m quite excited by this opportunity and very much looking forward to covering the story of my hometown. I’m a life long Hamiltonian. Even when…
Town and Gown – the university's been here since…
I’ve been spending a lot of time reading The Washington Post‘s higher education site over the last few weeks. It is a well-laid out informative heavy package. A couple of things I like about it: It links out to other higher education media web sites, including the “competition”:…
Town and Gown – the university's been here since…
I’ve been spending a lot of time reading The Washington Post‘s higher education site over the last few weeks. It is a well-laid out informative heavy package. A couple of things I like about it: It links out to other higher education media web sites, including the “competition”:…