Daniel Bachhuber

Internet as a disruptive force

For tomorrow night’s Fertile Ambition call, my argument is that the internet is an inherently disruptive force for institutions and industries whose business models don’t take advantage of a flattening world. Pragmatically speaking, I’ve identified the music, movie, and news industries as ones which have already been at the receiving end of this characteristic. In [...]

Student news as process

Will Sullivan asks, “What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?”
Why, adopt the technologies that are changing the media organization, of course.
Disclaimer: I’m no formal contributor to this October’s Carnival of Journalism but, y’arr matey, I be boarding the ship anyway. 
Online publishing mediums are in flux and will continue [...]

Blog Action Day 08: The Cost of Water

In Mumbai, India, the poorest of the poor pay disproportionately more for their water.

Men and boys from the non-institutionalized slums of Mumbai (the ones on the periphery of the city without public taps) wake at 4 AM every morning to buy water from those who do have formal connections.

The cost of water is two rupees [...]

The Daily Emerald has its blogs back

The Daily Emerald is working hard on moving its web presence forward. Largely, it’s me setting up the technology and implementing design, but the rest of the newsroom understands imperative to innovate quickly and start transitioning to a better digital product. The result of about five hours hacking a WordPress template yesterday is ODE Blogs, [...]

It’s hard to be hip-hop

It’s Hard to Be Hip-hop from Daniel Bachhuber on Vimeo.
My very first multimedia piece for the Oregon Daily Emerald (and audio slideshow ever).