This weekend at the Northern Voice conference, Kirk LaPointe from The Vancouver Sun and I spoke on a panel called “How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media.”
The visuals I used, created using a new-to-me online tool called Prezi, are posted online here.
I won’t recount the whole thing, but here’s a couple of key ideas I talked [...]
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How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media
Shrinking my city with social media
I’m going to be speaking at the Northern Voice conference this weekend, joining Kirk LaPointe from the Vancouver Sun on a panel called “How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media”.
One of the tricky things in trying to prepare my presentation is that the subject matter is my job, but this is supposed a “Personal Blogging and [...]
Opting out of phone books: Yes, and not yet but soon
I did a story for CBC News in Vancouver today that’s already getting a bunch of comments on our site. It’s about phone books being delivered that aren’t wanted, and what companies are doing about it.
Not one but two thick business directories arrived on Vancouver doorstops a few weeks ago. I didn’t think much more [...]
Talking trash with the Clean Bin Project
I spent yesterday morning with the people behind The Clean Bin Project, Jen and Grant. As I showed in my CBC story (video link) last night, they haven’t taken out the garbage in seven (!) months. They’re buying almost nothing, except food, and even with edibles they’re following strict rules to reduce packaging and waste.
If [...]
Could composting be the new recycling?
We started composting at home about two years ago. I had been resistant: the smell, the slop, the fruit flies. My only previous compost experience was a big rotting pile at the back of a Kits rental that itself seemed to be returning to the earth.
But a friend who goes through a lot of dirt [...]
Cleaning the peanut butter jar
Update: Thanks to @marklise, @nolanzak, @davejohnson, @ChrisParry and @eco_smart for their suggestions via Twitter! If you have a suggestion, let me know.
I’ll admit it, I was a little resistant to taking on what are generally called “consumer stories” on my beat as an environment reporter. (Find out why after the jump)
But my editors have been [...]
Welcome
I’m a journalist based in Vancouver, Canada, currently working as the environment reporter for CBC News Vancouver.
One thing I’ll do here is post about the stories I’m reporting. They range from newsy, like the crash in recycling commodity prices, to the more citizen/consumer focused. For example, I recently did a piece on the messy question, [...]