Portfolio

Below is a collection of some of the work that I have done for print and online. It is not presented in any order:

Online Design and Development:
Bay on the Brink: The 2009 Project for the News21 program at Maryland. Developed in Drupal, and I served as art director and an editor for some of the multimedia student projects.

The New Voters: The 2008 project for the News21 program at Maryland. Developed in Drupal and I served as an editor.

NewsVision 2009: Developed in Drupal, was co-founder and producer for this one day event that brought more than 150 journalists and thought leaders together at the Newseum.

The Bay Beat: Commissioned as a faculty project. Developed in Drupal as a microsite for the college’s Capital News Service. Coverage focused on original and aggregated content on the Chesapeake Bay.

Merrill College Website: Launched a redesign in 2009 with the opening of the new building on Drupal and Wordpress platforms. Completed a 2005 redesign previously, to update the site from the design when I arrived.

J-Porfolio: This site was developed in collaboration with Merrill IT director Clint Bucco. Clint completed the custom backend coding, and I designed the UI to help track the college’s assessment progress.

Knight Hall Site: Site developed to showcase the new journalism building at the University of Maryland.

American Journalism Review: I served as primary Web developer for American Journalism Review during my tenure at the University of Maryland. I completed a redesign in 2006 (from its long-standing original design), further refined in 2007. I went through two additional redesign exercises with the editors to update the content management system and rethink coverage methods (e.g. more frequent posts, blogs, etc.), however neither launched due to staffing changes and budget cuts.

Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change (multiple sites): Served as an advisor and developer for multiple sites for the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda. (some sites have been taken off-line as new sites are developed) Developed in Wordpress, Drupal and Coldfusion.

Print:

To view an old portfolio of newspaper pages from 1997-2001, click here.

Blog Projects:
Deadline News: I migrated the semesterly newsletter about the college to an online form and began blogging about the happens at the school in 2007.

Merrill on Multimedia: (defunct) An experiment in group blogging of the Merrill faculty. Attempted to get a discussion started online among the “digerati” of the college; however few faculty engaged after their first post. I shut down the site due to lack of activity.

iMerrill Network: To replace the defunct Merrill on Multimedia site, and to allow easier opportunities for faculty and students to create their own sites, I launched the iMerrill Network in 2009. Based on WordPressMU, this is a self-serve publishing platform that appears to still be in use.

Journomics: (under development) A personal blog launched in early 2011 to document and comment on the business models of news and journalism.

Other:
“You Haven’t Lived…” Column: A weekly feature in the Washington Post’s metro section about fun/interesting things to do in the Washington area. Edited and wrote the quick blurb from 2004 to 2005.

“Deans of Change”: A 2007 article in American Journalism Review profiling the leaders of journalism and communication schools leading the revolution toward digital skills.