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To update from the previous post, Project Mango, a site I’m building to bring young journalists together to share their stories, experiences, tips and more, now has an official name: JournU.
The URL will be JournU.net. And it should debut in July. For now, you can follow JournU on Twitter and on Facebook.
But for the site [...]

It started with an email from GoDaddy.com a few weeks ago: The domain BrianManzullo.com needed to be renewed after two years.
I met the reminder with mixed feelings. For one thing, it’s hard to believe I first built this site two years ago… while I was interning at The Grand Rapids Press in 2009. The point? [...]

“You awake, Brian?”
Those words, coming from my freshman-year Geometry teacher, provided a shot of adrenaline during an extremely groggy Tuesday morning in a dark, projector-lit classroom.
I always fell asleep in class when I was in high school. I couldn’t help it. And while I was usually pretty good about masking my grogginess, Mr. Murphy caught [...]

Tuesday’s big story in azcentral.com sports (where I work) was the unveiling of Arizona State University’s new uniforms, logo and color scheme.
This press conference was built up for some time by the ASU athletics department. This past Saturday, they offered a inside peek at the new identity via invitation only in nearby Scottsdale. And even [...]

The inspiration for this post comes from this well written piece by Lauren Rabaino (who you should be following on Twitter, too, if you’re at all interested in journalism).
It was around the summer of 2009 when I began participating in Twitter chats such as #journchat, #wjchat and #collegejourn. If you’re unfamiliar with these, they are [...]

A bit of background: About a week and a half ago, I finally earned my invite to try out Storify, a social media storytelling tool that allows you to combine tweets, Facebook posts, videos and more to tell effective stories.
One of my favorite simple examples of Storify’s use is Adam Schweigert’s story of Ted Williams, [...]

Marcia Parker, the West Coast editorial director of Aol/Patch Media, came to speak in last week’s “Must See Monday” series at Arizona State University’s Cronkite school. She was there to discuss hyperlocal content in a digital world, which essentially sums up the endeavors of Patch, a multi-million-dollar venture by Aol to bring hyperlocal news sites [...]

Sometimes it takes a sitdown with some of the more creative minds in social media and journalism to get your brain into overdrive.
That’s how I viewed the first meeting of the “Webslingers,” a group of about 15 Phoenix-area journalists, social media gurus and Web geeks (some would classify under all three) formed by Arizona Republic [...]