Archive | August, 2009
Five things I’ve learned as editor-in-chief of an award-winning campus newspaper
This is probably the second post I’ve written in the past two and a half weeks on my blog so, to the few faithful readers, I feel like I owe an apology. The first week of my fifth and final school year at Central Michigan University is over with. And even with just two courses [...]
Continue reading...And so it is launched: The new cm-life.com!
Posted by Brian Manzullo at August 20, 2009
First of all, I apologize for the lack of updates in the last two weeks (for those of you who stayed faithful to my site, at least). I hope you’ll forgive me if I told you the last two weeks have been two of the busiest in my 22-and-a-half year life. It wasn’t just overhauling [...]
Continue reading...A day of reflection: Summer internship is over… but much lies ahead, and I need ideas
Posted by Brian Manzullo at August 7, 2009
Many hours ago, I walked out the doors of the Grand Rapids Press for the last time as a summer copy desk intern. I’m still not sure if that has hit me yet. Three months ago, I went through a day of orientation, two more days of training on a vastly outdated pagination system and cracked [...]
Continue reading...Want to maximize Twitter’s capabilities in a newsroom? Don’t stop with the news feed: Add the human touch
Posted by Brian Manzullo at August 5, 2009
If you’re a Twitter user like me, you probably have a handful of news publications, organizations and blogs giving you updates every time they add content. Which, in many cases, is nice to have. It’s like a quicker and simpler RSS feed. But if you’re like me, you also have certain publications, organizations and blogs that [...]
Continue reading...Journalism quick hits amid the redesign: J-schools need to move ahead
Posted by Brian Manzullo at August 3, 2009
For the better part of the last week, the redesign of the Central Michigan Life Web site has been my life apart from work at The Grand Rapids Press. So I haven’t really had much time to cruise around the Web in search of good reads on the journalism industry, social and new media, etc. But [...]
Continue reading...Day 3 of redesigning cm-life.com: Logos are a-changin’, plus new features
Posted by Brian Manzullo at August 1, 2009
After putting up the first prototype logo for the new cm-life.com in the previous entry and getting advice from several other journalists and designers, it was obvious we had some work to do in that department. After all, I didn’t want to go too much further in designing the site without having a logo virtually set [...]
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 August 28, 2009
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