United States of America
As a journalist, I'm most interested in new and evolving ways to gather and share stories.
It isn't just about what is said, but how it's said. I am particularly intrigued by places where technology, culture and society butt heads.
I currently work as a National News Editor. I am responsible for identifying and developing domestic news stories for all CNN platforms...digital, television, mobile, social.
My team oversees the editorial and operations of our domestic news coverage, ensures continuing coverage to continuously break news on priority stories and partners with all platforms to create written and visual content.
Locally, I wrote for years at FREEwilliamsburg.com where I reported and provided commentary on art, music, news and events in the Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
My stories have been featured on the websites of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post, among others.
If you've a lead on a compelling story- hit me up!
Mikey Lythcott has friends all over the world. That's mostly because he's been all over the world. There are postcards and the occasional letter, but Lythcott mostly keeps his friends up to date on his world (CNN) - travels via social media.
Texas students may no longer have to learn about Hillary Clinton, Barry Goldwater and Helen Keller in social studies class.
Scientists are monitoring the health of a group of critically endangered orcas in the Pacific Ocean following news that Scarlet, an emaciated member of the pod, is presumed dead.
According to the latest estimate by the Department of Housing and Urban Development there are more than 40,000 homeless veterans on any given night in America.
"It was unexpected at that moment," Downes-Le Guin said. "Her health had not been great." The acclaimed author penned everything from short stories to children's books, but was best known for her work in the science fiction and fantasy realm. Le Guin's stories challenged traditional ideas of power, gender and race with stories of young wizards, dragons and outer space.
Arizona is moving closer to revoking the licenses of 13 migrant children shelters operated by Southwest Key in the state, citing the company's failure to show proof of fingerprinting and background checks.
Based on his writings, Lee was not a fan of statues honoring Civil War generals, fearing they might "keep open the sores of war." According to historian Jonathan Horn, Lee was often consulted in his lifetime about proposals to erect monuments to Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson and others.
In a bipartisan effort, the state's legislators passed House Bill 2282. which was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee. "Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet," Inslee said at the bill signing.
On February 28, police opened the grave of Rev. A. Joseph Maskell after securing an order from the state's attorney, according to Elise Armacost, director of public affairs for Baltimore County Police.
The DOJ said the company received the falsely labeled artifacts from a United Arab Emirates-based supplier. The artifacts, ancient cuneiform tablets and clay bullae, were smuggled into the United States through the United Arab Emirates and Israel, Justice officials said.
Demonstrators in Charlottesville interrupted and blasted City Council members in the first meeting since clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters.
Here is some background on the gang that caused the FBI to start a task force to tackle the criminal enterprise. MS-13's roots Salvadoran immigrants fleeing the country's civil war started MS-13 decades ago in Los Angeles. Its members are also immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and other Central and South American countries, according to an FBI Threat Assessment of the gang.
Edward Snowden gets a job offer from Pavel Duov, CEO of Russian social network VKontakte.
The deep ocean, what scientists call the sea 650 feet (200 meters) or more underwater, makes up 90% of the habitable volume of the planet, and we don't know much about it. In fact, in many ways, we know more about the moon than we know about the ocean floor.
It's 8 p.m. in Chelsea, Massachusetts, just across the Mystic River from Boston. For Lt. Detective David Betz, his day is about to get busy. After about 30 minutes, Betz, head of the Narcotics and Vice Division of the Chelsea Police Department, leaves to meet with a confidential informant who has been assisting with a case.
Oregon sits on a huge fault line that separates two of the Earth's tectonic plates. One plate lies beneath the Pacific Ocean, off Oregon's coast, and it is being shoved beneath the North American continent. The fault line, known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, could one day cause an even larger quake.
An internal report has found that MIT committed no wrongdoing in the case of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
The use of drones to carry out military strikes is controversial, to say the least. U.S. lawmakers and international leaders continue to examine the legality of the unmanned attacks and whether their role in curbing terrorism outweighs the risk of unintended casualties. But British artist James Bridle has made up his mind -- and he's adopting Web and mobile tools to tell his side of the story.
A new Census Bureau app called 'America's Economy' is giving smartphone users easier access to government data.
The ACLU says the rate of marijuana-possession arrests for blacks is nearly 4 times as great as whites, when compared with proportions of the population.
You may have noticed something different about your friends' profile pictures as you scrolled through your Facebook feed this week. According to the social networking site, roughly 2.7 million users changed their profile image on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court pondered the future of same-sex marriage in the United States.
A New York state senator and a New York City councilman were among six people arrested Tuesday morning on charges that they schemed to fix the city's 2013 mayoral election through fraud, bribery and extortion, according to federal prosecutors.
Moderating a discussion on the future of broadband, Mashable editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff tossed a provocative question to the audience: "By quick show of hands, how many out there think that broadband is a luxury?
Tuesday is the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, but a poll shows that many Americans don't know the significance of the case.
If a website you're trying to reach is blocked for legal reasons, do you have a right to know about it? Developer advocate Tim Bray thinks so, and he's got a perfect error code for it: 451, a tribute to the late Ray Bradbury's landmark novel about censorship, Fahrenheit 451
Despite an escalating nationwide debate on gun control in the wake of Friday's mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, the National Rifle Association has remained conspicuously silent.