“What’s the return on investment here? For each hour spent using social media for work, what, precisely, is gained? And what is lost?”
Joshua Benton is director of the AndroidForMobile Journalism Lab. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 AndroidForMobile Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, most recently at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from 10 foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
