Tag Archive | "Journalism"
My quick take on TBD.com, a new interpretation of online news
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 [...]
Continue reading...Three things I dare journalism students to do before they graduate
Friday, July 16, 2010
I've always thought that if journalism was going to truly move forward, it's going to have to start again from the ground up. That includes thinking differently about journalism education. Here are three bold things students can do to make the most of it.
Continue reading...The ups and downs of geolocation tools, and what we can learn from them
Friday, July 2, 2010
It seems many people are looking toward geolocation as the future of social media — that is, if it isn’t already “here” now. The evolution of online networking has taken big steps the past few years. We’ve already nailed down connecting with friends and family (MySpace, then Facebook). We then nailed down connecting with random people [...]
Continue reading...We know where journalism’s going — but don’t forget about the newspaper just yet
Thursday, May 20, 2010
(Nothing spectacular here; just wanted to put a thought down while I had it. I may expand on this later.) I’ve spent the majority of this week training for my second stint at The Grand Rapids Press, learning the new system workflow it implemented since last summer. Between that and settling in on the northwest side [...]
Continue reading...Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web
Monday, April 26, 2010
This is a topic I might elaborate further on in the coming weeks. I was thinking the other day about how a newsroom should operate its daily workflow, particularly a college newsroom (since, for the time being, I'm editor of one), and how many use the Web for it. When I first began working at CM Life, we operated on NewsEdit Pro and Quark Xpress. Now it's InCopy and InDesign for their flexibility and the ability to edit copy while designers are at work. The productivity is no doubt efficient. The problem is the workflow is based around the print operation in a newsroom that's supposed to think Web-first.
Continue reading...Watching from afar what transpires at BCNI
Friday, April 23, 2010
I had this coming weekend circled on my calendar for a couple months — a chance to meet in person some of the most brilliant minds on the future of journalism at BarCamp NewsInnovation in Philadelphia. BCNI is a conference that uses an open-grid format for sessions, allowing virtually anybody who attends to organize an [...]
Continue reading...An ode to CoPress… and a look ahead
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
It was a little more than a year ago when, as online editor at Central Michigan Life, I was tasked with reconstructing cm-life.com from the ground up. Since we were one of dozens of student newspapers that used College Publisher, we first considered upgrading from 4.0 to 5.0, which would effectively redesign the site and give [...]
Continue reading...Tip sheet for aspiring journalists, Twitter page and other things I’ve been working on
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
It’s been awhile since I updated this, so I thought I’d write up a snapshot of what exactly I’ve been up to the past month or so. On the online front, we have an online editor at Central Michigan Life — Dave Veselenak, who was managing editor last fall. This makes it a lot easier on [...]
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.
Monday, August 9, 2010
View Comments