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 …
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TweetI consider Spot Us, which launched today, to be one of the more important news experiments out there right now. For those just hearing of it now: The site, dreamed up and guided by the brilliant David Cohn, shares editorial power with the community. It can begin with a story pitch by a journalist, or …
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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 …
TweetNewspapers 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 weren’t more entrepreneurs inside …
TweetKeep 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 Hill Courier-Post. The anonymous …
TweetThere was a great piece of investigative reporting the other day by Dena Pauling in the Centre Daily Times, my hometown newspaper and former employer. It revealed mold problems in a local high school, and how the school’s administration failed to notify the public about it. It also prints the outright denials by school officials …
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TweetThis does. So our photographer wouldn’t have to try to juggle his still and video cameras, I volunteered to shoot some video. I didn’t say I’d be good at it, I just said I’d try it. I clearly had no idea what I was doing. My favorite moment came when a friendly videographer there said …
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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 …