Author Archives: Justin W. Woodmancy

This nation-wide lockdown and quarantine sucks.  We all know it does, this isn’t a unique thought or a bold opinion to have. We are all just sitting in our homes with nothing to do, while literally thousands of people around us die daily from a seemingly unstoppable virus.  We are essentially living in Hell.  But,Continue reading “Making the best out of a bad situation”

ARTICLE: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/ I was searching around the internet earlier today for articles that make good use of interactive media elements in their stories, and I stumbled upon several that caught my attention. The article I’ve decided to link here though, was certainly the most interesting. While it isn’t about the Coronavirus and pre-dates it byContinue reading “Best Thing I’ve Read This Week (3/30 – 4/5)”

Article: https://pitchfork.com/features/song-by-song/stephen-malkmus-traditional-techniques-interview/ Understandably so, all news is currently focused on COVID-19. I’ve obviously read and watched an awful lot of coronavirus coverage over the past week(s), but I wouldn’t consider any of it to be the best things I’ve read. I don’t read about the pandemic for pleasure, I read about it because I can’tContinue reading “The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week (3/23 – 3/29)”

Brutal, unsettling and unthinkable crimes occur everyday in Buffalo, and someone has to go to the scene to report on them. That someone is Aaron Besecker, a criminal justice and breaking news reporter at The Buffalo News. Besecker, a Western New York native and 2002 University at Buffalo graduate, started his journalism career with NiagaraContinue reading “Empathize but stay distant: Surviving Buffalo News’ Criminal Justice Desk”

Ken Burns’ new PBS documentary depicts public housing in America as a racist institution that has kept society’s most marginalized people segregated, silent and in a perpetual state of poverty. The voiceless families who have long suffered at the hands of state and federal housing authorities have been granted a voice to share their storiesContinue reading “Ken Burns PBS documentary “East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story” premieres at WNED in Buffalo”

Article: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus It has been difficult to escape hearing about the Coronavirus in 2020. Seemingly every time you turn on the TV, tune into the radio, open up the newspaper, scroll through twitter or fire up your web browser you are met with new statistics or stories regarding the disease. The issue has become soContinue reading “The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week (2/24 – 3/1):”

On Saturday night, Broad Street in the small city of Salamanca on the Seneca Nation’s Allegany Territory was consistently riddled with traffic, requiring law enforcement to direct the flow of vehicles coming and going. Anyone familiar with Salamanca, or the Southern Tier of NY as a whole, knows how uncommon traffic of any sort isContinue reading “Snocross races bring business to Salamanca’s locally owned establishments”

ARTICLE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-11/why-everything-you-thought-about-running-is-wrong/11775598 Once again, this week’s article comes from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. No, I’m not particularly interested in Australia. I was reading my article that I chose for last week, when I stumbled upon this piece through researching the designer who created the graphs from the last article. This new article, titled “Why almostContinue reading “The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week (2/10 – 2/14)”

ARTICLE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-18/how-your-worst-fears-stack-up-against-reality/9277098 The best thing I read this week is this interactive article from ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) News. This piece, titled “How your fears stack up against reality”, shows readers how most common fears are not nearly as scary as they seem. The writers exemplify this by presenting statistics that state how unlikely oneContinue reading “The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week (2/3-2/7)”

ARTICLE: https://www.livescience.com/hottest-exoplanet-melting-atmosphere.html This is a Live Science article written by Senior Writer Brandon Specktor about a recent NASA discovery –  a truly one of a kind exoplanet. If you don’t know, an exoplanet is an identified planet that is outside of our solar system and in a planetary system of its own. This particular planet,Continue reading “The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week (1/27-1/31)”