Archive for 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 [...]
And so it is launched: The new cm-life.com!
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 [...]
A day of reflection: Summer internship is over… but much lies ahead, and I need ideas
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Three months ago, I went through a day of orientation, two more days of training on a vastly outdated pagination system and cracked [...]
Want to maximize Twitter’s capabilities in a newsroom? Don’t stop with the news feed: Add the human touch
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 [...]
Journalism quick hits amid the redesign: J-schools need to move ahead
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 [...]
