Archive | July, 2009
Day 1 of redesigning cm-life.com: Organizing for simplicity
Today has been a grueling day, the first of many to come over the next month. I began my foray into the CSS/PHP world on WordPress, with the help of CoPress’ Daniel Bachhuber (who, at the end of this, I’ll be sure to thank a thousand times), in redesigning Central Michigan Life’s Web presentation. The logo [...]
Continue reading...Tomorrow, it begins: The official redesign of Central Michigan University’s student newspaper
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 29, 2009
One of my biggest projects as a young journalist and my first as editor-in-chief of Central Michigan Life embarks early tomorrow afternoon: The redesign of cm-life.com, the Web site for the student newspaper at Central Michigan. This is a project that has been in the talks for more than a year. We began thinking redesign sometime [...]
Continue reading...Conversing digitally at public events using Twitter
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 26, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +1 Page Design (”Savory Sensations”) It’s amazing how a simple networking tool such as Twitter can be used in so many ways to communicate. The Grand Rapids Press, a newspaper crazier about Twitter than most, introduced me to another this summer. Grand Rapids hosted its 40th annual Festival of the Arts, one of the biggest West [...]
Continue reading...My initial thoughts on AnnArbor.com, the now-live online news organization
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 24, 2009
Late Thursday night, the party came early for AnnArbor.com. The site went live for the first time in replacement of The Ann Arbor News, which ended its long run the same day. Like I said in the previous entry, this is a big step for not just Ann Arbor, but for the journalism industry in general. [...]
Continue reading...All eyes are on AnnArbor.com on Friday
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 22, 2009
Friday is a historic day for Michigan journalism. As one of eight Booth newspapers ends its 174-year run as a community staple, a new digital publication embarks that day which, for all we know, could symbolize a desperately needed transition in the state’s journalism industry. The Ann Arbor News, a newspaper in the town of about 114,000 [...]
Continue reading...Lights, camera, practice: A Final Four trip to remember
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 20, 2009
When you are a fledgling journalist, you don’t get many chances like these. I knew this three months ago, walking into Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., for the fourth time in two years. All three previous trips were for CMU football games as a beat writer, including two Motor City Bowls. This trip was similar in [...]
Continue reading...New feature: Read what I’m reading, thanks to Publish2
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 19, 2009
Just yesterday, I added a new feature to the right sidebar on my page, below my recent posts and above my Twitter feed, called “What I’m Reading.” This is a widget designed to feed the stories I linked from Publish2, a collaborative journalism platform which, among its features, powers “link journalism.” It allows news organizations and [...]
Continue reading...J-School, from a young journalist’s perspective: Maybe not needed, but definitely a luxury
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 18, 2009
This always has been an interesting discussion to me. There are two main sides in this debate about whether journalists really need a journalism major, and it’s pretty self-explanatory. One side feels J-school still gives you the necessary skills every journalist needs to survive. The other feels it is virtually useless and students should focus on [...]
Continue reading...Who am I?
The future of news media has never been more exciting to me.
I am a multifaceted young journalist looking to become a web producer or a sports reporter with an online bent. I'm currently interning at The Grand Rapids Press, and previously served as 2009-10 editor in chief of Central Michigan Life, the award-winning student publication of Central Michigan University.
I was named 2009 College Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association, and graduated from CMU in May 2010 with a degree in journalism and media design. I spent the summer of 2009 at The Grand Rapids Press as a copy desk intern, and summer 2008 at The Saginaw News as a metro reporting intern.
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 30, 2009
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