Media

Fashion has always been pushed as a younger person’s game. Over the years it has been tailored to young women’s bodies with low body fat, perky body parts, and the naivete that comes with youth.

"Lifestyle journalism" sounds featherweight and inconsequential, but when you dust away the uninformative blurbs (of which I've written more than my share) and sexy latte-art photos, you remember that "lifestyle" includes the word "life." This stuff is our lives: what we see, what we eat, where we go. When done well, lifestyle journalism can help make us aware of the rich textures of our communities and enrich our lives by helping us to make smart choices about how to spend our precious leisure hours.

From the average user's standpoint, Google+ has been a flop. Soon after everyone joined, Google's social network turned into a ghost town as most users realized that it was basically a Facebook that was less intuitive to use, and with many fewer active users.

We’re trying to sharpen up the focus of our reporting here at TC Daily Planet. That’s the news I heard earlier this month, that I welcomed with enthusiasm and also dread.

On the one hand, I always want to improve my writing, and the ideas my editor Mary Turck shared with me to help made a lot of sense, like asking to whom this matters, making sure stakeholders participate in creating the story, asking whether it has an element of surprise or controversy, and if it does, including multiple points of view, etc.