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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 Three months ago, I went through a day of orientation, two more days of training on a vastly outdated pagination system and cracked [...]
Continue reading...Journalism quick hits amid the redesign: J-schools need to move ahead
Monday, August 3, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Day 3 of redesigning cm-life.com: Logos are a-changin’, plus new features
Saturday, August 1, 2009
After putting up the first prototype logo for the new cm-life.com in the previous entry and getting advice from several other journalists and designers, it was obvious we had some work to do in that department. After all, I didn’t want to go too much further in designing the site without having a logo virtually set [...]
Continue reading...Tomorrow, it begins: The official redesign of Central Michigan University’s student newspaper
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
One of my biggest projects as a young journalist and my first as editor-in-chief of Central Michigan Life embarks early tomorrow afternoon: The redesign of cm-life.com, the Web site for the student newspaper at Central Michigan. This is a project that has been in the talks for more than a year. We began thinking redesign sometime [...]
Continue reading...J-School, from a young journalist’s perspective: Maybe not needed, but definitely a luxury
Saturday, July 18, 2009
This always has been an interesting discussion to me. There are two main sides in this debate about whether journalists really need a journalism major, and it’s pretty self-explanatory. One side feels J-school still gives you the necessary skills every journalist needs to survive. The other feels it is virtually useless and students should focus on [...]
Continue reading...5 feature/profile reporting tips for beginning journalists
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sometime last Spring, Central Michigan Life’s adviser, Neil Hopp, asked a coworker, Dan Monson, and I to spend some time working with some of the newer sports reporters on how to write extensive feature and/or profile stories. The request came after our Hearst wins – Monson placed 14th in Personality/Profile Writing for “Hidden pain” and [...]
Continue reading...Journalism dying? Not on our watch: The future is in our hands as young journalists
Monday, July 13, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +1 Page Design It might be an understatement for me to write that these are trying times in journalism. Over the last year or so, we have seen big-time newspapers close their doors (The Rocky Mountain News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Others are making the move to strictly online (The Ann Arbor News to AnnArbor.com, although both [...]
Continue reading...“The shot that got away” – why, as primarily a writer, I now truly respect a photojournalist’s job
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Photography always has been an essential part of a newspaper. The main photo on a front page usually is the first thing you see when you pass a news stand. Photos give pages personality. They accent the reporting. But in working in newsrooms the last four years or so, I’ve learned that many times, the photo [...]
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.
Friday, August 7, 2009
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