“Potential EU membership is a long-term issue. It’s about the future. This is certainly a very serious crisis that the EU countries are going through. We’ll obviously have to monitor the developments very well, but we certainly hope that the EU will manage its way through this crisis.”  - Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson, Iceland’s chief negotiator in Iceland’s accession talks to join the EU. My story on the negotiations is in today’s Reykjavík Grapevine. Photo by Alísa Kalyanova 

“Potential EU membership is a long-term issue. It’s about the future. This is certainly a very serious crisis that the EU countries are going through. We’ll obviously have to monitor the developments very well, but we certainly hope that the EU will manage its way through this crisis.”

 - Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson, Iceland’s chief negotiator in Iceland’s accession talks to join the EU.

My story on the negotiations is in today’s Reykjavík Grapevine. Photo by Alísa Kalyanova 

  1. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  2. Aperture: f/5
  3. Exposure: 1/100th
  4. Focal Length: 28mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 15th June 2012
    2. Tags Icon #Iceland#EU#negotiations#journalism

Like, seriously, what was reporting before the internet happened? 

Online directories, archived stories, a butt ton of information. I feel like I have it so easy.

  1. Date Posted Icon 9th September 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 3
    3. Tags Icon #journalism
- Visual journalist Charles Apple

- Visual journalist Charles Apple

  1. Date Posted Icon 22nd July 2011
    2. Tags Icon #journalism
"I decided then that if I was to succeed in a profession that is all about truth-telling, I couldn’t tell the truth about myself."
— Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who revealed he is an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines in a New York Times Magazine article yesterday
  1. Date Posted Icon 23rd June 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 57
    3. Tags Icon #jose antonio vargas#immigration#phillipines#washington post#journalism#new york times

This was the coolest interview I have ever done, and probably will do for a long time.

Full disclosure: Ira Glass is one of my idols. The host of “This American Life,” a public radio show that explores themes and stories that educate and entertain, has captured my imagination with his storytelling capabilities and journalistic integrity.

He spoke at Lisner Auditorium at GW Saturday night, and I was able to cover the event and interview him before the show for The GW Hatchet, the campus newspaper that I work for. 

This interview also inspired me. Glass’s key quote that comes at the end, saying that journalism needs to be enjoyable, and young journalists need to be doing stories that amuse them. For me, this is something I plan on putting into action right away. Stay tuned.

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  1. Date Posted Icon 3rd April 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 8
    3. Tags Icon #Ira Glass#This American Life#journalism#interviews#hipsters#public radio