The following is the basis of a tutorial I’ll be giving later today of a University of Memphis journalism class on various ways to create Google Maps.
1) Linking to or embedding Google MyMaps is the most simple way to begin.
Log into your Google account, head over to maps.google.com, and click “MyMaps” right under the Google logo. [...]

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Tootin’ my own horn again. I was lucky enough to have worked on this great project — Wasted in Wisconsin — last summer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It examines the state’s drinking culture and its human repercussions.
Now it’s won a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Award for Safety.
It was a hell of an undertaking, [...]

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The other day, while sitting in my kitchen, I couldn’t remember when the Pulitzers were announced.
So I googled “pulitzer prize” on my iPhone and the first two entries directed me to the official site.
Both asked for a username and password and denied me access.
The third Google entry directed me to Wikipedia, where I got the [...]

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An investigation I worked on this past summer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won second place in the Milwaukee Press Club’s 2008 Excellence in Journalism Awards in the Best Investigative Story or Series category.
The story, Race Gap Found in Pothole Patching, found that after an especially rough winter, there was a correlation between the [...]

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It’s not often my two of my passions — fishing and free speech — collide in such spectacular fashion.

But the government of Clearwater, Fla., fined a local bait shop for violating city code with a mural it commissioned painted on an exterior wall, and then — get this — ordered the removal of a banner [...]

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