In December, the Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS) published over 200 pages of internal emails as required by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). […]
The new face of media and journalism: Me or Rachel Sklar?
The AEJMC News jury has rendered its verdict: As a print journalism professor, I am a dinosaur. I suspect many professors like me — bred through long newsroom careers and leavened, in […]
Happy Holidays – iPhone art style
by mentalswitch Here are two more from the iPhone-only gallery. Don’t worry, the second one is more innocuous… Happy holidays!
$45 billion: a sour-tasting decade of out-of-control political spending

Add up every nickel and dime recorded by the Federal Election Commission and state election commissions in this decade now ending. Result: Americans have given more than $24.2 billion in campaign contributions […]
E&P's demise a loss for journalism's public service mission
No one saw this coming: The sudden demise of Editor & Publisher, the long-revered, trusted, occasionally insouciant, experienced watchdog of the newspaper industry. The Nielsen Company said Thursday it would shutter the […]
iPhone Art – Portrait of a woman
by mentalswitch The pocket-based art continues. Shot and edited completely on my iPhone.
iPhone Art Series – Abstract Portrait
by mentalswitch More from iPhone-only land.
iPhone Art, a different approach
by mentalswitch Most of what I have shared so far has been some variety of full image manipulation with some layering and effects. Today I have a different type of image to […]
Lou Dobbs' next horizon: A Rush to radio?
I have three stuffed animals at home that I hide when I expect visitors. (Guys don’t do stuffed animals.) But my fuzzy critters serve a purpose. Four years ago, I destroyed my […]
First Friday – Day of the Dead
by mentalswitch The iPhone art continues. Three shots from this past Friday’s Day of the Dead artwalk outing. Cass of the Dead