I am a reporter and new media specialist with experience creating interactive features and producing data-driven stories and multimedia. I mostly write about politics, economics, health and design. In July of 2011 I received my M.A. in online journalism from USC's Annenberg School for Communication. This is what I've been working on.
Monthly archive March, 2010

Prez-periment

So I tried this Prezi thing today for the first time to go with this story about the Artcycle and green spaces in L.A. Not so bad for fake Flash, no? Artcycle up close on Prezi

How will healthcare reform help you?

As always, what concerns House members most is not what the bill can do for their country, but what the bill can do for their district. That's why yesterday Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) compiled a list of the benefits of the healthcare reform bill for every congressional district in the nation. I looked at the reports...

Cash, credit or nothing?

One of the reasons I love the Internet is that it’s almost commune-esque. There’s open-source software, Creative Commons photos on Flickr and now: Businesses that don’t try to sell you anything. I interviewed the founders of Web start-ups that are trying to get us to make use of what we already have – how refreshing,...

"The people, united, will never be defeated."

Yesterday I went to UCLA to watch all the Marching Forth. Till I get the sound edited, here’s what went down: Here’s what it was like and here’s what I thought of it.