Archive | October, 2009
Behind the scenes of 24MP: Covering our city, Mount Pleasant, in 24 hours via multimedia
I meant to post something on this earlier, but never got around to it until now. As you can see from sporadic updating since late August, being editor in chief at a student newspaper can be a tiring job, and it leaks into my out-of-office life a little bit, too. But anyway… On Oct. 14, the staff [...]
Continue reading...The Digital Roundtable: The beginning of live chatting on cm-life.com
Posted by Brian Manzullo at October 19, 2009
Mid-September, I talked about one of my goals for the semester being the beginning of live chat discussions regarding Central Michigan University. Well, we are well under way with it. We wrapped up our second “Digital Roundtable” discussion earlier tonight with CMU’s Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe, Director of Student Life Tony Voisin and Director of [...]
Continue reading...My aggregation experience: The Michigan government shutdown
Posted by Brian Manzullo at October 8, 2009
Four years ago, aggregating at Central Michigan Life was virtually unheard of. Staff policy was fixed on reporters and editors doing the legwork themselves – as in, make the phone calls, cross-reference and analyze. Don’t base your reporting on another newspaper’s reporting. Every story at CM Life required 2-3 sources at least before it could even [...]
Continue reading...Newspapers need to set their sports coverage apart and make it better than anyone else’s – even ESPN
Posted by Brian Manzullo at October 6, 2009
I don’t write too much about sports journalism. But reading McGuire on Media’s blog post on ESPN.com and newspapers got me thinking. ESPN, the mecca of sports media, is expanding its movement to go local with sports coverage. It started with ESPN Chicago, and now it’s expanding to ESPN Boston and ESPN Dallas/Forth Worth. Pretty soon, [...]
Continue reading...Quotes to remember so far from ONA ‘09 livestreaming
Posted by Brian Manzullo at October 2, 2009
Unfortunately, Mount Pleasant, Mich., is thousands of miles away from San Francisco and Online News Association 2009 at the Hilton. But I did take some time today to check out two keynotes from today, via ONA 09’s Livestream. Here are some of the quotes that caught my ear, and they should for any journalist/media entrepreneur … [...]
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 October 30, 2009
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