Archive for September, 2008

American Journalism Review writes about reporters and Twitter

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Here's a nice story by Laurie White for the American journalism Review: All the News That's Fit to Tweet. Scroll down about halfway and you'll see me quoted in this story about reporters who use Twitter. Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor), a reporter at the Harrisburg Patriot-News, says he was originally a Twitter ...

Apparently I look like a blogger

Friday, September 19th, 2008

If you follow me on Twitter -- which you should be doing -- you've already heard this story. But for everyone else: After covering a speech Howard Dean gave to an SEIU conference in Hershey, Pa., I had a one-on-one interview scheduled with him. Since he was short on time, I ...

Thursday at the Online News Association conference: “I think I’m following you”

Friday, September 12th, 2008

(For more on ONA08 as it's happening, check for Tweets here. And I'll be updating Twitter myself throughout the day. This is a quick, non-exhaustive recap as I don't have much time before I need to catch my metro.) Among the bloggers/Twitter users I've long talked to or read online and ...

TNTJ: Review of The Journal and Courier Web site

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

(This is my contribution to the Tomorrow's News, Tomorrow's Journalists blogring of young journalists. Our topic this month was to review our local newspaper's Web site -- but seeing as I work for the local newspaper and I am not dumb, I decided to switch papers with Meranda Watling, who ...

Keeping online journalism away from the Underpant Gnomes

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Someone recently asked me if I've come across any future business models for journalism that I felt passionate about. My response: Hmm. Hmmmmmm. Um. Let me think here. Uh...Uh....No, I guess not. I could talk or blog up a storm about the innovative new content that news organizations need to provide, or ...