Casey Cora's Page

So, our CAR ace has put together a preliminary framework in Django, I've been collecting data on homicides in our area since the first of the year. We have several searchable, sortable categories (age, race, address, homicide location, etc. ) and subcategories (weapon, weapon type, relationship to suspect/victim, etc.) and so far, so good. The idea is to build a page about homicides, and I've got tons of good story ideas because of it, both for print and multimedia. But I'd to hate make all th… Continue

Three e-mail accounts. A professional blog, a personal blog (this), and an experimental blog. del.icio.us bookmarks. A MySpace page and a neglected Facebook account. Who's got the time? A guy's gotta squeeze some work in there, too. There's no shortage of options to consider - social networks, blogging, databases, Flash, etc. - and it's all exciting. I'm thrilled to learn it all. Really, I am. But am I the only one who thinks it's hard enough to simply keep tabs on what's new? And that's sayi… Continue

I can't escape the question of whether or not being a fairly young, jack-of-all trades in the newsroom is a good thing. In my year in the big leagues, I hope I've proven that I can be good at whatever I'm asked to do. On any day, that could be a lot of different things, all related to reporting, writing, recording, photographing and producing news. For the paper and/or the Web. But I don't think I'm great at any of them (yet). So, how do you get great at one thing while doing your part… Continue