About halfway through my freshman year of high school, I was approached by my English teach Mrs. Griffiths and asked if I’d be interested in joining the school newspaper. She saw something in my writing, but more intriguing to her – she would later reveal – was the way I asked questions.
Since that day in [...]
This Sillicon Valley Watcher came out with a list of 10 basic new media skills for journalists. He has some good points so I will share them here.
How to upload an image to a blog. (I know journalists that don’t know how.)
How to add a link to text in an online story.
How to take and [...]
I think Alan Mutter, in his recent and talked about post that poses the question of whether newspapers can afford the luxury of so many editors as newsrooms face shrinking budgets, misses the point and a great opportunity.
“How many people have to read a story before it goes in the paper?” asked a senior editor [...]
It turns out there is a blog about newspapers using the Drupal content management platform. I’d really like to do a project on the platform and I am wondering if anyone out there has any advice on that to get me started.
On that same topic, Steve Yelvington wrote a post about a guy in Belgium [...]