Tag: #longform

• Overheard: Venkatesh Rao

  

  Interesting conversation with writer/thinker/consultant, Venkatesh Rao —drifting from Silicon Valley as its own (well-developed) epistemic-sociological space to the responsibility of “bloggers” [def: writers without the mediating force of editors who know more about the audience] to keep the Internet a lively and productive intellectual space.

  Adam McCauley

  January 6, 2016

  Published, Reporter’s Notebook

  #longform, Overheard, Podcast, Thought of the Day, Venkatesh Rao

• Why you need to read The Outlaw Ocean

  This morning, The New York Times published the fourth installment of The Outlaw Ocean —a wide-ranging investigation into murder, exploitation, criminal pollution of waterways, and illegal fishing across our tragedy-ridden commons: the high seas.

  Adam McCauley

  July 28, 2015

  Reporter’s Notebook

  #longform, abuse, Africa, America, crimes, fishing, fishing industry, high seas, Ian Urbina, investigations, kidnapping, maritime security, murder, New York Times, oceans, Piracy, Poaching, Response, review, seas, South China Sea, Thailand