Archive | July, 2009
Blistering the eyes: My job at The Grand Rapids Press, and how it’s helping me
It’s been about one week since my site launched, and I realized I haven’t written too much about The Grand Rapids Press. So here’s everything in a nutshell. I’m spending my summer in Grand Rapids, Mich., located on the western side of the state with a population around 190,000. The Press is one of eight Michigan [...]
Continue reading...5 feature/profile reporting tips for beginning journalists
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 15, 2009
Sometime last Spring, Central Michigan Life’s adviser, Neil Hopp, asked a coworker, Dan Monson, and I to spend some time working with some of the newer sports reporters on how to write extensive feature and/or profile stories. The request came after our Hearst wins – Monson placed 14th in Personality/Profile Writing for “Hidden pain” and [...]
Continue reading...Journalism dying? Not on our watch: The future is in our hands as young journalists
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 13, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +1 Page Design It might be an understatement for me to write that these are trying times in journalism. Over the last year or so, we have seen big-time newspapers close their doors (The Rocky Mountain News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Others are making the move to strictly online (The Ann Arbor News to AnnArbor.com, although both [...]
Continue reading...A beautiful, sunny day in Grand Haven, Michigan
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 11, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +9 Photo Having been born and raised in Saginaw, on the eastern side of Michigan, I have not had the chance to experience much of what West Michigan has to offer until this summer. It is pretty safe to say I was missing out on some of Michigan’s finer places. A summer day in Grand Haven [...]
Continue reading...“The shot that got away” – why, as primarily a writer, I now truly respect a photojournalist’s job
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 9, 2009
Photography always has been an essential part of a newspaper. The main photo on a front page usually is the first thing you see when you pass a news stand. Photos give pages personality. They accent the reporting. But in working in newsrooms the last four years or so, I’ve learned that many times, the photo [...]
Continue reading...Updates… and that’s all for now
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 8, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +6 Photo +1 Page Design Just a quick update on what I posted earlier today. My photos are from the MLK March on CMU’s campus last January. (Expect cutlines for all the photos soon, by the way, just haven’t gotten to that yet) The design is a food cover I worked on Monday and Tuesday. My hope [...]
Continue reading...Some minor fixes
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 7, 2009
First of all, special thanks to those who checked out the site and gave me feedback. I really do appreciate it, as I will continue to work on the site to make it better and more functional. I did fix a few minor things, for those who were having problems earlier: 1) You can now leave comments [...]
Continue reading...Welcome to BrianManzullo.com!
Posted by Brian Manzullo at July 7, 2009
Greetings! After about two weeks of setting up hosting, compiling files and building the site, BrianManzullo.com is finally up and running. As you might be aware, this site, as of right now, mainly is an online portfolio. I will use it throughout its duration as a place to store my work for others to see and comment [...]
Continue reading...Who am I?
The future of news media has never been more exciting to me.
I am a multifaceted young journalist currently working as online sports producer at The Arizona Republic. I interned at The Grand Rapids Press over the summer, 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 16, 2009
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