Archive for 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 [...]
The Digital Roundtable: The beginning of live chatting on cm-life.com
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 [...]
My aggregation experience: The Michigan government shutdown
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 [...]
Newspapers need to set their sports coverage apart and make it better than anyone else’s – even ESPN
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, [...]
Quotes to remember so far from ONA ‘09 livestreaming
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 … [...]
