Category Archives: Spot.us

Story on solar power online

OnEarth magazine, a publication of the National Resources Defense Council, has put my Spot.us story about making solar power affordable for Bay Area homeowners up on its Web site.
The story took a few months to report after numerous interviews, and due to publishing deadlines, took a few months more to get published online.

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Cameo on IFC Media Project

I didn’t watch the IFC Media Project TV show on “Economics and News” on May 24, but found out in an e-mail from a friend that I had a short cameo (a few seconds) on the segment about Spot.us.
That’s not the episode that can be played above, but the one on economics and the news [...]

Solar stories

My solar story for Spot.us should be running in On Earth magazine within the next month. The magazine is a publication of the National Resources Defense Council.
In the meantime, I came across an interesting tip and wrote a sidebar that appears below and ran on WalletPop, a personal finance Web site run by AOL that [...]

P-I may be online only

Tuesday, March 10, is D-Day for the Seattle Post-Intellegencer, when its owner, Hearst Corp. plans to announce if a buyer has been found. If not, it will close the newspaper and according to a story on the P-I’s Web site,  is planning to start an online publication on the day after the final print newspaper is [...]

How newspaper closings will affect online news

My reporting continues on a story for Spot.us about the future of the Bay Area’s newspapers in an online world. As you’ve probably already read many times, the San Francisco Chronicle’s owner is looking to cut enough staff, and if it doesn’t it plans to either sell it or close the newspaper. The Rocky Mountain [...]