Everything Yusuf Omar needs to shoot, edit and publish a story fits in his pocket. Self-proclaimed “jeans journalist” Omar has spent the last near decade traveling the globe, telling some of the world’s most important stories with just a mobile phone and a few simple apps. The former Senior Social Reporter for CNN, Omar has […]
Three years ago in a North Carolina Applebee’s, former Campbell University student, Matt Nelson, tweeted about the “petability” of a Japanese Irish Setter who supposedly lost an eye in Vietnam. Literally overnight – and several hilarious tweets later – Nelson’s @dog_rates Twitter account garnered about 500 followers. By the end of the month, that number grew to […]
Celebrating his 10th year at SXSW, entrepreneur and digital media titan Gary Vaynerchuk held a live #AskGaryVee session at SXSW in Austin, TX on Friday. Despite an intense morning playing some pick-up basketball (in which some coiski staffers participated), Gary still brought the fire. Out of the 20-or-so audience questions, check out some of his […]
Maira Garcia officially has one of the coolest journalism jobs in the world. As a senior staff editor for the New York Times, Garcia works at The Culture Desk where she thinks about how to frame web content for an increasingly mobile and social audience. On a typical day, Garcia has to make decisions on […]