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Archive for January, 2008

A network of newsrooms

What a great idea. I stumbled upon Publishing 2.0’s post about creating a network of newsrooms, journalist, bloggers and others to cover the “Super Tuesday” primary elections on Feb. 5.
Again, what a great idea. Collaborative projects like this seem to be popping up more and more and I think will have more relevance as the [...]

Content is not king

Being a former newspaper reporter it is hard for me to accept and get over the fact that content is not king when it comes to the Internet.
I used to be on the bandwagon that thought content was what brought people online, but that is no longer that case and the reasons are too many [...]

Why good video matters

I work at a mid-size daily in the Midwest that has been operating under the “good enough” strategy when it comes to video.
I think the strategy of arming willing reporters with small cameras and having traditional still photographer shoot some video is a good approach at the beginning of the transformation into more of a [...]

A template for a breaking news story

Rob Curley posted a great dissection on his blog of how the Las Vegas Sun covered the fire at the Monte Carlo hotel which I think can become a template or roadmap for just about any newsroom with a major event, either hyper-local or a story that goes national.
When I finally got back to my computer [...]

Supertweets: When Twitter goes Super

Can Twitter be used to analyze the Super Bowl and the commercials in real-time better than anyone else? That is the question my friend Tom is hoping to answer with the introduction of Supertweets.
Welcome to Supertweets, an experiment using Twitter to report, analyze and opine on everything surrounding Super Bowl XLII, and most importantly where [...]

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