Finally done! Got about three hours of sleep last night from 3 am – 6 am and finished the book proposal and sample chapter. Went to a party on the roof of a classmate’s apartment on 94th/Broadway with a great view of the Hudson. We’ll see where this leads.
So this should be it for me and school. You can start calling me “Master Farivar” starting next Wednesday.
So what’s next for me? Well, I’m back in Oakland on May 20 and am very much looking forward to it. Will either be working at a paper/magazine or freelancing from there. Perhaps a bit of both. Either option is fine. I’ve got my new digs to worry about and such. Depending on the housing sitch and the job sitch, if I’m still freelancing by July, I think I’ll go to the Middle East for about two months. Turkey and Iran. (Speaking of which, Hoder says Iran is now issuing seven day tourist visas.)
Montreal was fun. I visited my grandfather’s grave site. Didn’t get Cuban rum. (Ok, those weren’t so fun, but it was still a good trip.) Thursday is Philly. Friday is Hartford. Saturday is Boston.
Installed Tiger. Looks good so far.
In other news from the media world:
In order to build readers’ confidence, an internal committee at The New York Times has recommended taking a variety of steps, including having senior editors write more regularly about the workings of the paper, tracking errors in a systematic way and responding more assertively to the paper’s critics.
The committee also recommended that the paper “increase our coverage of religion in America” and “cover the country in a fuller way,” with more reporting from rural areas and of a broader array of cultural and lifestyle issues. [Full text of the report.]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of dozens of people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed.
Wired News, which publishes some articles from Wired magazine, paid for the review of stories by one of its frequent contributors, Michelle Delio, 37, of New York City. It was expected to disclose results late Monday.
The review determined that dozens of people cited in articles by Delio primarily during the past 18 months could not be located, said one person familiar with the report’s conclusions. This person said nearly all the people who were cited as sources and who could not be located had common names and occupations and were reported to be living in large metropolitan regions.
Wired News’ editor in chief, Evan Hansen, confirmed those conclusions Monday. “I wouldn’t dispute any of that,” he said.
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The review for Wired News was carried out by Adam Penenberg, a Wired News columnist who teaches journalism at New York University. Penenberg exposed fabricated articles in The New Republic by Stephen Glass in 1998 while Penenberg was a writer for Forbes.com. Glass was fired.
Weird how Wired News still hasn’t said anything about this.
