I should’ve posted this last week, but I totally forgot. Anyway, The Roanoke Times won the Pictures of the Year International’s Documentary of the Year award for our series “Age of Uncertainty.”
Winning second place was The Los Angeles Times, third place was The National Geographic and one of the finalists was The New York [...]

As the title implies, this week has been a good hectic. Very busy, fun and fast, this week has flown by.
Here’s a glimpse of some things I’ve been working on starting with the flower Flash graphic. After looking over it, I think it’s probably my favorite Flash graphic I’ve ever done. This [...]

Just a quick post because I’ve been a nerd the past few days, but MIT’s SIMILE project just released a new open-source site to create widgets out of a few of their graphs.
I’ve been knee-deep in SIMILE javascript the past few days, so this was slightly exciting to me when I heard it. I [...]

I had friends visiting this weekend - which is why I should have posted this link earlier - but here’s the video of the Williamsville Post Office (a la the barking dogs underneath this post).
The video is about a group of people fighting to keep their small post office open, despite pressure from the U.S. [...]

…with my posts, that is! But in my defense, I’ve had to be at work at 5 a.m. this entire week to update our website.
Since I’ve last posted something of worthwhile, journalistic value there’s been a lot going on. Mainly, two videos and a graphic that I’ve published in the past week have kept [...]

I went around to all eight Roanoke area housing projects on Friday to take pictures for an interactive map I’m working on. It definitely wasn’t the most comfortable thing I’ve ever done, but I’m starting to realize that most of my field experience here in Roanoke thus far has tested my comfort level - [...]

The past two days have been filled with trying to reconnect my Actionscript neurons - which is difficult because they were never fully developed in the first place. However, I’ve really made some breakthroughs (thanks to Lynda) with an interactive graphic comparing crime in different housing projects around Roanoke.
Anyway, I don’t really care to [...]

I once heard that the hardest part of doing a story is getting out of the car. Though I’ve vaguely understood this concept in the past, I don’t think I’ve ever believed it as much as today upon entering Bob’s Restaurant in Vinton, Va.
Let me set the stage: The Roanoke Times was sending out [...]

Welcome to my new blog. Unlike other blog attempts I’ve had in the past, I’m really going to try to keep this one updated as much as possible.
This blog is in cohorts with my Web site, www.chriszaluski.com, so check that out if you want more information on me. I’ve also added a “video” [...]