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Over the past five months, I’ve enjoyed working on a wide array of everyday projects as sports producer at The Arizona Republic. But one of my favorite duties is creating “close-up” photo galleries.
Here’s one example from the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, which took place in Glendale, about 15 minutes from where I work (downtown Phoenix).
The format [...]

Last week, 10,000 Words creator Mark S. Luckie wrote a blog post on five myths about digital journalism. I recommend you read the post, but just to provide a roundup, here are the five myths:

Journalists must know everything.
Social media is the answer (to saving journalism).
Journalists must have database development skills.
Comments suck/comments are essential for democracy.
There [...]

A couple of articles I’ve read over the past week caught my eye.
The first was Chadwick Matlin’s piece on “A Faustian Bargain” in the Columbia Journalism Review. Matlin discusses the editorial use of slideshows as a form of online journalism that can generate a massive number of pageviews simply by clicking through each slide. He [...]

As a journalist, I’ve never been too involved on the politics side of reporting.
With that confession aside — I love election days.
Not just because few feelings compare to the rush of being in a newsroom on an election night, either. I remember working Central Michigan Life’s website in 2008, during the presidential election, constantly posting [...]

Last week marked the one-month mark of my job at the Arizona Republic. And with this being my first foray into the web realm on a professional level, I wanted to take time and write down my thoughts on thinking in real-time as a gatekeeper of the Web. Because we’re definitely entering an age of real-time [...]

I probably should’ve updated this a lot sooner but, then again, one week into my first post-education job is probably a good time, too.
The reason for the lack of updates, and the reason for the lack of Twitter usage (at least pertaining to journalism) is tied to the adjustment period over the past 30 days [...]

The inspiration for this blog post came from an idle Tuesday night in the basement of my childhood home in Saginaw, Mich.
I’m watching the MLB Network (one of my new favorite channels) at around 2:30 a.m., trying to rework my biological clock to stay up until 5 a.m. since I’ll be working until that time [...]

Well, it’s finally here. After about a year, if not more, of development. Jim Brady, Steve Buttry and the TBD gang launched its highly anticipated community-driven news platform today in Washington, D.C.
Normally I wouldn’t be so excited over a news site launching in an area that has almost no relevance to me, but it is [...]