Start with the question.
I'm Eric Jourgensen: journalism teacher, writer, author, speaker, and the person behind @DrDarthGrader. Most of my work starts in the same place: How do you know?
You do not need the whole résumé. Pick the door that sounds useful.
What brought you here?
Instagram, a classroom, a conference, a book, or a rabbit hole. All valid.
Life Between the Lessons
Personal essays about teaching, family, faith, pop culture, writing, and the questions that follow me home.
Run the WATER Check
WAIT. ASK. TRACE. EXAMINE. RESPOND. A practical routine for deciding what a claim has actually earned.
The Deadline Plate
Four student journalists. One impossible printing plate. 1887 New York. Someone is editing history.
Speaking + workshops
News literacy, AI literacy, student journalism, verification, and professional learning built around things people can actually use.
Take something useful.
You do not have to buy the book or book a workshop to use the classroom material.
Facts need context.
A source can be real and still need checking. A statistic can be accurate and still mislead. A story can be true in every sentence and still leave you with the wrong picture.
Meet Dr. J.
The longer route includes journalism, photography, MTV/SonicNet, Disney, educational technology, classrooms, comics, movies, student media, and a continuing inability to leave a good question alone.
About EricBooks, WATER, writing, and classroom work.
Browse everything when you are ready. The point of this page is that you do not have to do it all at once.