Tweet(Note, 12/4/13: When I wrote this post almost two years ago, everything here was true. Now, much of it no longer applies. The timeless summary: Experiment with different forms of posting, watch your own data, adjust based on what you see.) “You can’t always control who walks into your life but, you can control which …
Tweet It was almost 6 p.m. when we discovered in the newsroom that Andrew Stack, the pilot who attacked the IRS building in Austin, was a graduate of the Milton Hershey School, right in our backyard. For my first 2.5 years at The Patriot-News I covered the residential school for underprivileged children, so I offered …
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TweetWhen Central PA NewsVote first launched last week, the initial post got 36 comments, many of which were story ideas I was very happy about. (Catch up on my new blog, in which I solicit story ideas from readers and allow them to assign me their favorite via polling, in my older entries on the …
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TweetA simple task every reporter has to deal with: Brainstorming story ideas. In this case, I needed to seek out a little-known charity or organization to feature. Instead of sitting around and hoping a good idea popped into my head, or maybe e-mailing a source or two and crossing my fingers, I put my question …
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TweetTimesPeople will be marked as the beginning of a key revolution in newspaper Web sites. Not because of what it is — a pretty underwhelming social network based on recommending stories at nytimes.com — but because of the doors it’ll open to a more social experience in consuming news. Shoving content onto existing social networks …
TweetIn a significant portion of the journalism blogging community, I’ve witnessed the following themes emerge: We’re all going to die. We’re all going to freaking die. There are two types of reporters: Those who “get it,” and those who “just don’t get it.” If you don’t know what you’re getting, then you clearly don’t get …
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