Category: Journalism

  • A drop in damage as aircraft bird strike reports climb, FAA data show

    A drop in damage as aircraft bird strike reports climb, FAA data show

    Moments after United Flight 1738 took off from O’Hare International Airport on the clear morning of Thursday, June 1, passenger Drew Tewksbury heard a thud. The plane tilted left, then leveled out. Tewksbury, 48, an insurance executive from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, said the plane’s right engine started making the sound of a car driving down […]

  • Video: Heineken buys Lagunitas

    For my mobile web video course, where we dive deep into Adobe Premiere, I’m learning the art of the social-media style video. The course is taught by Ivan Meyers. Here, a short business reporting video about Heineken buying Lagunitas on May 4, 2017. Full news story here.

  • Digging Data: Two days at NewsHack AZ

    Digging Data: Two days at NewsHack AZ

    Instructors: @esagara @carlibrosseau @matt_kiefer @mikeonline @ronaldjhansen @EvanWyloge @CaitMcGlade @rob_wisner pic.twitter.com/kvwxSZMuDg — NewsHackAZ (@NewsHackAZ) January 26, 2016 Have you ever been to a news hack? Guessing not. I hadn’t either until NewsHackAZ this past weekend. Assembled by University of Arizona’s journalism school and the Arizona Daily Star, the paper here in Tucson, NewsHackAZ brought in data reporters, digital […]

  • Costa Concordia

    In the July/August 2013 issue of FFJournal, my first cover story was published.   It’s about the metalwork involved with the Costa Concordia shipwreck salvage. Click the photo or link here: Salvaging a Shipwreck.