Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I'm not sure when it went live, but the new Syracuse.com looks like a significant step up from the prior design shared by all Advance Internet sites (including Pennlive, which posts stories written by my newspaper. Clicking those two pretty much gives you the before and after for Syracuse). Read ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I love the beatblogging project because it's innovation in real newsroom laboratories, as opposed to tsk-tsking and dreaming.
My foray into it has had its ups and downs, but I recently had a kind of success story that I didn't expect when I signed up.
And it shows why I believe so ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
This is my favorite time of the year in the newsroom: The annual march of the interns.
In my newsroom, we have four in the various departments, and it's so much fun having them around. They bring a lively approach to their writing, they haven't had all the hope squeezed out ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
I'm well aware that there are journalists who simply don't want to understand the Web and why it's important.
But I believe there are a lot of journalists who are perfectly willing to learn more Web skills, if only the pitch was made to them in the right way. They don't ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Newspapers have a tremendous opportunity to re-brand themselves as the center of the online community, connecting people to each other in every way possible.
But that window is so enormously small, I fear very few papers will take advantage. It'll be a fatal blow, and we'll be kicking ourselves that there ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Reporters ought to be learning Web skills for self-preservation and for the betterment of the community.
But if that's not enough, how about getting better story assignments?
That was my experience during the Pennsylvania primaries, when I was often dispatched to some of the bigger events in the state. And believe me, ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
This will be an unusually confrontational post for me.
That said, Yoni Greenbaum was right on yesterday in pointing out a significant problem in some of the journalists fighting the good fight online:
But, and this might just be because of whom I read, the loudest are the bloggers who complain the ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A little past 9 a.m. today, a long fleet of truckers roared down the central business area of Harrisburg, all incessantly honking their horns. Some had signs taped outside their windows, revealing that they were protesting gas prices at the Capitol.
Interesting story, as anyone who lives or has an office ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Keep your hand down, Steve Boriss. I know your answer is "zero."
This question struck me when I read the fond adieu that the blogger at Left of Centre wrote to Adam Smeltz, a Centre Daily Times reporter and long-time friend of mine who recently accepted a job at the Cherry ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
A lot of the most spirited arguments for social media are often made in places where there's already a tech-savvy audience built in.
Yet in a place like Harrisburg, Pa., which is home to the country's 86th-biggest newspaper and the No. 41 television market, there are a total of nine people ...
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