Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 25th, 2008
It was the kind of press release every reporter hates getting: The dreaded check presentation. You're almost tempted to cover it, but you know it's only considered news if you're lazy or desperately need to fill space. I was neither, and backed by an editor who similarly hates canned press ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
As much as I want to write more about journalism and less about journalism bloggers, Journalism.me deserves some attention.
It's a simple blog aggregator that takes most of my favorite journalism bloggers and condenses them into a single RSS feed. And yes, it is a full feed, not a partial feed.
The ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
If you haven't yet read the comment thread on a recent entry by Tampa Tribune intern Jessica DaSilva, go do it now. There's no better example of the emotionally charged internal battle that the newspaper industry is facing.
Seeing as I already expressed admiration for DaSilva's blogging way before she suddenly ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Pat Thornton's interview with me, and his resulting recap, is up at Beatblogging.org. His conclusion: Sometimes a Ning network just doesn't work.
I believe the experience of the Hershey Home is a valuable laboratory for other journalists, especially those outside of the big cities. This is why I love the beatblogging.org ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
At the end of the final June meeting of the Derry Twp. school board, I told a parent that I'd see her at the next meeting.
But until then, I enthusiastically said to the Hershey Home member, she should participate a lot on the Ning network!
"Ehh..." she said, shrugging her shoulders.
I ...
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