Presentations
Over the years I have led classes, given presentations and participated in panels at all sorts of conferences, for audiences from high school journalists to police analysts to hardware hackers. Here are some of them.
Retrocomputing talks
- "Saving the software curiosities of Ya'akov Kirschen" July 20, 2025 - KansasFest 2025
- "Saving the software curiosities of Ya'akov Kirschen" Aug. 17, 2024 - Atlanta Historical Computing Society
- "Saving the software curiosities of Ya'akov Kirschen" Feb. 5, 2023 - Arch Reactor St. Louis
Tolkien talks
- "Reflections on Middle-earth from a Middle American" May 9, 2025 - Westmoot 2025
Professional conferences/talks
- "When story subjects push back" June 23, 2023 - IRE 2023 - panel discussion
- "Truth isn't dead" (John Aubuchon Award speech) Dec. 7, 2022 - National Press Club
- "Crime statistics and the media" July 18, 2019 - 2019 NIBRS/MIBRS Forum - with Janelle O'Dea
Student journalism conferences/talks
- "Meet Missouri's 'hacker'" Nov. 12, 2022 - JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention
- "Newspaper Design Trends in the Age of Trump" April 7, 2018 - Missouri College Media Association
- "From front page to front-end" March 15, 2017 - JournalismSTL Spring Conference - with Andrew Nguyen
Podcast appearances
- Discussed governor's hacking accusation March 3, 2022 - "K12 Tech Talk"
- Discussed governor's hacking accusation Feb. 23, 2022 - "Inside the Post-Dispatch"
- Discussed governor's hacking accusation Feb. 16, 2022 - "St. Louis On the Air"
- Discussed Ian Froeb's STL 100 March 11, 2019 - "Inside the Post-Dispatch"
- Discussed regional crime stats Oct. 11, 2018 - "Inside the Post-Dispatch"
- Discussed the 2017 School Guide June. 16, 2017 - "Inside the Post-Dispatch"
- Discussed retrocomputing Sept. 8, 2015 - "Electric Dreams"
- Discussed BBS games Feb. 2, 2014 - "The Bobby Blackwolf Show"
Teaching
All my life, I've loved teaching and mentoring. My first experience was teaching preschoolers at church, a job I've continued to do for several decades. When my own kids were in elementary and junior high school, I coached a FIRST Lego League robotics team. I've also worked as an adjunct professor several times.
College courses
- Layout and Design (JOUR 2300) Fall 2020 - Webster University
- News design and editing (COM-35300-11) Fall 2017 - Lindenwood University