Earlier this month, Patrick Stevens at D1scourse.com compiled the hiring dates of all 351 NCAA Division I men’s basketball coaches. That data set piqued my interest, so I played around with it a bit and created the giant infographic below (click the image for a larger version, or download the PDF). You can also see the… Continue reading Infographic: NCAA Men’s Basketball Coaching Tenures
The New York Times’ Avalanche Package: Great Pieces, Need More Integration
In the BBC Victorian miniseries “Cranford,” there’s a scene where Dr. Harrison, fresh out of medical school and newly settled in a tiny country hamlet, is confronted with his first case — a patient who’s suffered a compound fracture to his arm. While the people of the town, including Dr. Harrison’s elder counterpart and employer,… Continue reading The New York Times’ Avalanche Package: Great Pieces, Need More Integration
A Difficult Goodbye
About three weeks ago, I designed a newspaper sports front page for the first time in six years as I served as an emergency fill-in on the sports desk at my old newspaper, The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C. Four days later, I found out that that would also be the last time I get to design… Continue reading A Difficult Goodbye
How to Deliver News with Context
Journalism professor Jay Rosen had a couple of questions on Twitter last week that got me thinking. First he asked how we can change the news system to better serve news users of different levels in terms of their understanding of a topic. Later, in a related tweet, he pointed to an American Journalism Review… Continue reading How to Deliver News with Context