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Dec5

Interesting report from the Life, Inc. blog about Americans living on $50,000 a year - which is the national household median income as reported by the Census Bureau. This week, they’ll be profiling people from across the country whose annual household income is about $50,000. We are the median: Living on $50,000 a year Does $50,000 a year seem like plenty to live on, or not nearly enough? If you said somewhere in between, that makes sense because $49,445 is the national household median income, meaning about half of all households live on more than that and half on less. The figure, based on 2010 calculations, was reported in September by the Census Bureau as part of an extensive report on income and poverty… …Many of the readers who wrote to us say that on $50,000 a year they can put food on the table, pay for necessities and even splurge occasionally on a dinner out or a game for the family. But others told us they have to watch their budgets closely and occasionally make sacrifices to get the bills paid. “It’s not poverty. We don’t miss meals and we make MOST of our bills. However, we live paycheck to paycheck, and we carry debt,” wrote Brett Jones, 37, who lives with his partner in Texas. (photo of Nathan Palmer, left, and Brett Jones at their home in Victoria, Texas, by Eric Kayne via Life Inc.)

Interesting report from the Life, Inc. blog about Americans living on $50,000 a year - which is the national household median income as reported by the Census Bureau.

This week, they’ll be profiling people from across the country whose annual household income is about $50,000.

We are the median: Living on $50,000 a year

Does $50,000 a year seem like plenty to live on, or not nearly enough?

If you said somewhere in between, that makes sense because $49,445 is the national household median income, meaning about half of all households live on more than that and half on less. The figure, based on 2010 calculations, was reported in September by the Census Bureau as part of an extensive report on income and poverty…

…Many of the readers who wrote to us say that on $50,000 a year they can put food on the table, pay for necessities and even splurge occasionally on a dinner out or a game for the family.

But others told us they have to watch their budgets closely and occasionally make sacrifices to get the bills paid.

“It’s not poverty. We don’t miss meals and we make MOST of our bills. However, we live paycheck to paycheck, and we carry debt,” wrote Brett Jones, 37, who lives with his partner in Texas.

(photo of Nathan Palmer, left, and Brett Jones at their home in Victoria, Texas, by Eric Kayne via Life Inc.)

13 notes #money #usa #america #economy #today #allison linn #msnbc #journalism #news

Nov18

Monty Cook resigns from reesenews, UNC after explicit G-chats | Reesenews→

Faculty member at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication resigns after he allegedly “initiated and fostered and amorous relationship” with a student by means of “explicit electronic messages.” The students working on the project he ran report the story…

Monty Cook, former executive producer of the Reese Felts Digital News Project, resigned on Tuesday due to an incident with a female student. UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication Dean Jean Folkerts announced the resignation in a meeting with reesenews staff Wednesday afternoon.

According to the student in question and several sources familiar with the incident, conversations of a sexual nature occurred between Cook and the student over G-chat, an instant messaging service provided by G-mail.

This might not be the first time Cook has engaged in illicit electronic conversations. Several members of UNC-CH faculty received an e-mail in May 2010, two months after Cook was hired, with the text of an alleged G-chat conversation between Cook and an unidentified woman. The conversation was explicit in nature.

The e-mail was sent by the woman’s husband and received by 25 faculty members, including Dean Folkerts. The stated purpose of the e-mail was to end the relationship between Cook and the man’s wife.

Cook, 46, is married with two children.

#journalism #scandal #education #stupid

Nov10

New York Times deputy graphics editor Matthew Ericson searches for the earliest election map produced by the paper. Also included in his post are a couple of examples of how the map changed in following years. First NYT Election Map? Or at least the first one published on the day after the election? A year or two ago, I went digging thru the archives to see if I could find the first election results map published in an edition of the Times dated the day after the election. This is the earliest one I found, which was published in the Wednesday, November 4, 1896 edition of the paper and headlined “A map showing how all the states in the union have cast their electoral votes, those which have gone for M’Kinley being in white and those for Bryan in black.” (via Matthew Ericson – ericson.net)

New York Times deputy graphics editor Matthew Ericson searches for the earliest election map produced by the paper. Also included in his post are a couple of examples of how the map changed in following years.

First NYT Election Map?

Or at least the first one published on the day after the election? A year or two ago, I went digging thru the archives to see if I could find the first election results map published in an edition of the Times dated the day after the election. This is the earliest one I found, which was published in the Wednesday, November 4, 1896 edition of the paper and headlined “A map showing how all the states in the union have cast their electoral votes, those which have gone for M’Kinley being in white and those for Bryan in black.”

(via Matthew Ericson – ericson.net)

25 notes #maps #usa #data #new york times #information #visualization #journalism #politics

Oct11

Electric Road Trip Msnbc.com’s Alan Boyle and Jim Seida chronicle their experience from the road as they make their way from Seattle to San Francisco in a Chevy Volt. How will electric cars change our lives? Join us as we take a road trip in a Chevy Volt — and share your thoughts about the plug-in driving experience. Media producer Jim Seida and I will take turns behind the wheel of a Volt on Monday and Tuesday for the 800-mile drive between Seattle and San Francisco, on the first leg of Chevrolet’s “Volt Unplugged” tour around the nation. Along the way, we’re going to be sending updates, photos and video about the real-world driving experience.

Electric Road Trip

Msnbc.com’s Alan Boyle and Jim Seida chronicle their experience from the road as they make their way from Seattle to San Francisco in a Chevy Volt.

How will electric cars change our lives? Join us as we take a road trip in a Chevy Volt — and share your thoughts about the plug-in driving experience.

Media producer Jim Seida and I will take turns behind the wheel of a Volt on Monday and Tuesday for the 800-mile drive between Seattle and San Francisco, on the first leg of Chevrolet’s “Volt Unplugged” tour around the nation. Along the way, we’re going to be sending updates, photos and video about the real-world driving experience.

(Source: msnbc.com)

3 notes #electricity #transportation #journalism #travel

Sep28

Aug11

Interesting article in SF Weekly about the iPad being used as a tool to help autistic children learn communication and social skills. iHelp for Autism Since the iPad’s unveiling in April, autism experts and parents have brought it into countless homes and classrooms around the world. Developers have begun pumping out applications specifically designed for users with special needs, and initial studies are already measuring the effectiveness of the iPod Touch and the iPad as learning tools for children with autism. Through the devices, some of these children have been able to communicate their thoughts to adults for the first time. Others have learned life skills that had eluded them for years. (via SF Weekly)

Interesting article in SF Weekly about the iPad being used as a tool to help autistic children learn communication and social skills.

iHelp for Autism

Since the iPad’s unveiling in April, autism experts and parents have brought it into countless homes and classrooms around the world. Developers have begun pumping out applications specifically designed for users with special needs, and initial studies are already measuring the effectiveness of the iPod Touch and the iPad as learning tools for children with autism. Through the devices, some of these children have been able to communicate their thoughts to adults for the first time. Others have learned life skills that had eluded them for years.

(via SF Weekly)

2 notes #iPad #technology #autism #journalism #san francisco