App Lets Riders Forgo Cabs and Ignites Debate on Dallas’ Code -published online on www.nytimes.com on 10/31/13 and in print in The New York Times on 11/1/13This is the first article that I got published in The New York Times while working at The Texas Tribune. For it, I had to do a lot of research, examining legal documents and talking to city officials from around the state. It focuses on Uber, a San Francisco-based company that allows users to order a ride in a luxury or standard vehicle using mobile phone applications. The company recently took a lot of heat in Dallas from incumbent transportation companies it was usurping, and I was able to break news with this story of Uber’s efforts to expand into other parts of the state.
Dallas Hair Braider to Sue Over Regulations -published on The Texas Tribune’s website on 10/1/13In this article, I examined an expected lawsuit against the state from a Dallas-area hair braider who was asked by state officials to attend 2,250 hours of instruction and open a 2,000-square-foot facility in order to independently run a hair braiding school. The article broke news of the suit and looked at an issue that had a serious effect on a small business owner, someone that might not have otherwise gotten much attention over their concerns.
Oxford Don aids Rowling pseudonym revelation -published on The Oxford Student's website on 7/19/13In this article, I looked at the role that a University of Oxford professor played in uncovering news that the renowned author JK Rowling has been writing under a pen name. This is obviously a topic that a lot of people would care about, considering her fan base, and I give an account of the process by which this professor used linguistic technology to make this finding and how he has been handling the fame resulting from his success.
Evacuation falls short of plans -published in The Daily Texan on 9/18/12I wrote this article following a false bomb threat made against UT. Through a tactful interview with a UT official, I was able to get her to confirm that UT did not follow University procedures when evacuating the school following the threat. UT’s failure in this case resulted in students being much closer to the evacuated areas than University policy and standard evacuation procedures during a bomb threat used nationally allow. This led to dialogues about the situation between the UT community and UT officials for months to come via various campus events put on by UT officials, students and individual colleges within the University.
University law student attracts heat over 3-D gun design -published in The Daily Texan on 10/4/12With this story, I became the first reporter at a mainstream publication to break the news that UT Law student Cody Wilson was developing designs that could easily be shared online and used with a 3-D printer to print out guns. News of his efforts soon appeared in the Austin American-Statesman and on a New York Times blog. Wilson has since quickly advanced his work, and I continue to cover developments within it. Wilson continually gives me scoops on his latest endeavors due to the professionalism I have shown while covering his work in the past.
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