The most interesting stories last more than a lifetime. This was especially apparent to me on a recent visit to Shishmaref, Alaska, an Inupiat village near the Arctic Circle that is faced with the prospect of relocation … Read more
I had long been a print reporter with a serious crush on audio. But until the opportunity to host a podcast fell in my lap, becoming someone who was lucky enough to make audio stories seemed like an elusive dream. Read more
Why are Chinese breweries trading up today? The question came in an email from a reader of the South China Morning Post’s new live stocks blog. The blog has transformed how we cover mainland China and Hong … Read more
I was ready for the premiere of my film. For five years, I’d been working on a behind-the-scenes documentary about the torturous and ultimately successful negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas. “The Negotiation”—“La Negociación” … Read more
Did you know it sometimes helps to work when slightly drunk? What about the companies asking their staff to work five-hour days for the same pay? Or the idea that office smokers are … Read more
Our family-owned newspaper, the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, is an exception to the corporate media strategy of squeezing out every last cent of the brand until it has no value left. The owners’ roots in Victoria run three … Read more
In February 1945, during the Battle of Manila, Japanese troops committed one of the worst massacres of World War II, slaughtering tens of thousands of Filipino men, women, and children in a tragedy comparable perhaps only to the Rape of … Read more
Except for my Nieman year, I had been staring down deadlines every work day since age 22. So after four decades of newsroom stresses, I moved back to Atlanta, where I had worked for many years for … Read more
After years of building digital products for companies ranging from Flickr to The Wall Street Journal to ABC News, I made a move to the investing side to help support and coach the next crop of companies that will meaningfully … Read more
