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Analyzing analytics: Results from a 2012 survey

Last year, I worked with Prof. Mike Jenner of the Missouri School of Journalism on a survey of American news editors to understand how they use web analytics in the newsroom. The following slides are from a presentation I gave at the Journalytics Summit of the Reynolds Journalism Institute on September 26, 2013. We worked […]

It’s a tie!

This post is not journalism research-related. But if you look at attending conferences to present research as an essential component of the research process (since scientific research should be public anyway), then learning how to tie a tie is useful–especially for someone like me who rarely uses a tie (and therefore being able to do […]

Plagiarism pandemic: Is copying contagious?

It is shocking, unthinkable, and embarrassing, that a senator of the Republic of the Philippines will deliver a speech, for everyone to hear, with passages copied from a blog that everyone with an internet connection can access. High-profile copying, however, is no longer an original act. In an online world overloaded with information, where cutting-and-pasting […]

Of studying and cooking

An edited (and much better) version of this rant is on today’s issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. I am posting here my original draft, typos and all.  I love food. It nourishes me. It makes me happy. So when I got a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US almost two years ago, I […]

Welcome

This is my first attempt at blogging. I was a newspaper reporter. I am also a student. One of my research projects found that newspaper and website journalists differ not only in how they perceive the future of the newspaper but also in their attitudes toward online news. It is not surprising, therefore, that few […]