Kim Pearson

My publication credits include Black Enterprise Magazine, Emerge Magazine, and the Quarterly Black Review of Books, among others. I currently teach journalism
and professional writing courses at The College of New Jersey.


How Computational Thinking is Changing Journalism & What’s Next

I’m part of the post-Watergate generation of journalism school graduates, and I’m watching my peers struggle to master digital tools in an effort to stay relevant to an industry that is shifting under their feet. After years of working and… Read more

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Sprint’s “Now” Widget: Future of Mobile News?

“Welcome to Now” beckoned the synthesized female voice that accompanies Sprint’s “Now” widget. This Flash-based mobile Web portal features a compendium of useful and trivial information, entertainment and diversions — all arranged in rectangular modules arranged around a small… Read more

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Should ABC News Reveal Anonymous Sources in Anthrax Probe? Bloggers Say Yes

UPDATE: After this story was originally published, Brian Ross (the lead ABC News reporter on the 2001 anthrax stories) offered comment via TVNewser — primarily to defend his original reporting and to contend that he wasRead more

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BlogHer entrevista a Barack Obama

Por Kim E. Pearson (Texto traducido por Paúl Mena)

El pasado sábado 17 de mayo, el senador Barack Obama ofreció una video entrevista cara a cara con Erin Kotecki-Vest, una editora deRead more

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BlogHer Interviews Barack Obama

Last Saturday, Sen. Barack Obama did a face-to-face video interview with Erin Kotecki-Vest, an editor from BlogHer, responding to questions on a range of issues from female bloggers. Obama is the first to respond to… Read more

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Team Coverage of Events with CoverItLive

Next week, I’ll be a credentialed blogger covering speeches by the three leading presidential candidates at the joint conference and expo of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Newspaper Association of America. While the opportunity to report… Read more

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CoverItLive, the Sequel

Earlier this week Barb Iverson gave Tidbits readers the low-down on CoverItLive.com — a Web-based liveblogging tool. She was one of several correspondents using CoverItLive to report on the WeMedia conference in Miami.

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Interactive Literary Journalism: Building New Tools

What does it mean to do literary journalism in the age of interactive multimedia? This question has sparked my imagination ever since the late 1980s, when I wrote about the scientists and engineers at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories who created… Read more

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