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Phillip Smith
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Covers: data journalism, news and innovation, journalism, technology, hacking, data visualization, publishing and innovation
My passion is helping: 💰 1. Newsrooms make more money; 📈 2. News startups grow their audience; 🔥 3. Journalists succeed as entrepreneurs.
Phillip Smith’s Biography
Phillip Smith is a digital journalism specialist. He currently writes for the award-winning online regional daily news site, TheTyee.ca, and has a regular column covering "news technology" on PBS Mediashift Idea Lab.
Phillip Smith’s Journalist Portfolio
Jim Jennings: Canadians should be "scared shitless"
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Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: Mobile Strategies of Top News Sites
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Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up
How Journalists Can Think Like Programmers
Investigating the Technology Underlying Top News Organizations
The Tyee - Idea #10: The Reinvention of Nearly Everything
Articles
As the clock ticks down toward a looming November federal ban on hemp-derived cannabinoids, lawmakers have responded with a slew of proposed legislative fixes ranging from adopting a regulatory approach instead to delaying implementation of the ban to leaving regulation up to the states. And now we can add one more bill to the list. Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) has for the last month been circulating proposed legislation that would exempt hemp-derived cannabinoid beverages from the ban.
- Last Month's Corrupt Cops Stories (19 days ago) by Phillip Smith
The Chronicle may have had a respite, but law enforcement corruption related to drug prohibition took no break. In Charleston, South Carolina, a former Charleston County Sheriff's detention deputy was arrested June 4 for smuggling synthetic cannabinoids into the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center. Former deputy Karmen Robinson went down after cameras caught her entering a storage room with a male inmate shortly before two other inmates passed out at the jail.
- Trump Administration Urges Congress to Regulate—Not Ban—Hemp-Derived Cannabinoid Products (21 days ago) by Phillip Smith
In a bit of good news for the beleaguered hemp cannabinoid sector, the White House on Wednesday called on Congress to regulate hemp-derived cannabinoid products instead of banning them, or at least delaying implementation of the looming ban, which is set to go into effect on November 12.