TweetOnce the equipment arrives, I’ll be starting in a new position at The Patriot-News as a mobile journalist, or mojo. What that means is, correctly, still to be determined. We do know it’ll involve video, still photography, print stories and a lot of updates for the Web. We know I’ll have a laptop and an …
How I want to redefine my role, and the reader’s role, in the newspaper Read More »
Tweet(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 finally got to meet …
Thursday at the Online News Association conference: “I think I’m following you” Read More »
TweetRun up the Score, in my humble opinion, is the best of the many Penn State football-themed blogs out there. Though my particular newspaper, in my humble opinion, offers the best Penn State football coverage out there, RUTS has become required reading. I swept the pigeons away from my typewriter long enough to e-mail the …
TweetI was delighted to find Jessica DaSilva’s blog (via Pat Thornton). Jessica, a journalism student at the University of Florida, had a recent entry about her internship at the Tampa Tribune that took me back to the good old days of unadulterated enthusiasm. Reading through Jessica’s blog shows you don’t have to be an expert …
TweetA 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 downtown surely has heard …
When protesters are outside, Twitter beats local newspaper site Read More »
TweetReally, I won’t dwell too much on Mark Cuban in the future. I only pick on him now because I normally enjoy his blog and he’s written two blog-themed entries lately, and he sounds eerily like a lot of misguided journalists in writing them. So normally I’ll leave him alone, but his follow-up to his …
TweetMark Cuban’s consistently thought-provoking Blog Maverick had a doozy yesterday. He wrote about the situation that arose when he realized that one of the Dallas Morning News writers who was covering the team was — gasp! — a blogger. When he discovered this, he tried to revoke his credentials: Not because I don’t want this …
Sorry Mark Cuban: A blogger is not a blogger is not a blogger Read More »
Tweet(NOTE: This is a compilation of my posts in a blog that had several reporters contributing around the state. It originally had links in it, but they were lost in translation.) Santorum HQ gets the party started Not heeding the polls or pundits who had largely declared the U.S. Senate race over before it started, …
CLIPS: Live-blogging ’06 election night from Rick Santorum’s HQ Read More »