Tech reporters are a breed of their own, with a distinct set of skills, knowledge and experience. In this primer, G. Pascal Zachary, who reported on Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury and The Wall Street Journal, gives us the basics.
Aarti Shahani has a great radio piece about Zynga Inc., the company behind apps and online games including FarmVille and Words with Friends. The segment features CEO Mark Pincus, who declares at one point “I’m not the best speller” while playing Scramble with Friends. Aside from great quotes and audio from inside the company, Aarti [...]
President Obama will address Congress and the nation Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the annual State of the Union speech. It’s tempting, especially in an election year, to dismiss this staged event – and the many state-of-the-state addresses the nation’s governor’s are making this month and next – as pomp, theater and empty rhetoric. But like [...]
It’s the start of a new year but it appears the same stories will dominate financial journalism in 2012: the jobs market (or lack thereof), prices and inflation, financial industry regulation, health care, overseas economic crisis and the U.S. securities markets. All worthy and interesting, but sometimes you just want to exercise your creativity, reporting [...]
Only a few days until the 2012 International CES kicks off – the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas – and that’s plenty of time to find a local tie or two to this annual gadgetry extravanganza which runs Jan. 10-13. Even if your turf isn’t home to an electronics maker, you still may be [...]
Laurie Segall of CNNMoney article gets right to the point with its headline: “What’s really behind Twitter’s staff exodus?” She reports:
“The speed and depth of Twitter’s staff purge caught many by surprise — including some of the company’s own employees.”
Journalists: Don’t forget to get input from truck drivers while you’re reporting the NTSB suggestions for banning cellphones.
“Every day, China, Russia, Iran and others are blatantly stealing reams of information from U.S.-owned computers. This unprecedented heist, at an estimated cost of $1 trillion per year worldwide, includes the theft of the crown jewels of our economy: intellectual property created by American ingenuity and housed on corporate computer networks across our nation.” (Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., writing in Politico)
Is the $1 trillion figure Rogers and Ruppersberger cite just another big number, or is it something more?
It might be something less.
Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian put together a three-part series looking at the proliferation in Oregon of server farms or data centers, which, as he writes, are the “physical manifestations of the cloud that hosts your free Gmail, movie streams and Facebook friends.”
President Obama signed the America Invents Act, a sort of patent-approval reform, on Friday — which makes now a good time for ferreting out some interesting innovation, inventing and technology stories on your beat. The bill – reportedly the first major patent overhaul since 1952, which is sort of mind-boggling when you consider the technology changes and explosion [...]
