Archive | December, 2009
Eight things your college newsroom needs to change (if it hasn’t already)
I spent a lot of today thinking about my college career and how the times have changed. In particular, Central Michigan Life has changed a lot in the 4.5 years I have spent there as a young journalist. Philosophies are different, mentalities are progressing and new trends are taking form while old ones are dying. This [...]
Continue reading...Central Michigan Life’s five Web goals revisited
Posted by Brian Manzullo at December 14, 2009
Earlier this semester (on Sept. 16), I wrote a blog post detailing five major goals I had for Central Michigan Life’s new Web site and its integration into our newsroom. For those new to my blog, we launched a redesigned cm-life.com on Aug. 20, switching from College Publisher to WordPress’s content management system, with the help [...]
Continue reading...When it comes to consuming news today, Google Living Stories gets it
Posted by Brian Manzullo at December 11, 2009
Another encouraging development for today’s journalism is coming from Google. I had a chance to check out Google Living Stories, still under development in Google Labs. It basically creates landing pages for some of the big topics locally/nationally, aggregating to news stories, displaying a summary and timeline of events and more. As of right now, it [...]
Continue reading...The short-lived Detroit Daily Press seemed doomed from the start
Posted by Brian Manzullo at December 7, 2009
I get pretty excited anytime something new or innovative happens in the field of journalism. Recent example include Google Wave, the Texas Tribune and even AnnArbor.com, to an extent. The Detroit Daily Press was not one of them. Click the link for further proof. For those of you unfamiliar with the venture… brothers Gary and Mark Stern, [...]
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 December 18, 2009
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