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Michigan news media aggregating an unlikely earthquake
A little before 2 p.m. today, an earthquake (epicenter near Ottawa and Montreal) seemed to shake Michigan, mostly the eastern side of the state. That’s where I happen to be right now, visiting family. I didn’t feel it, probably because I was driving home when it supposedly happened but, as soon as I read about it [...]
Continue reading...My aggregation experience: The Michigan government shutdown
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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 [...]
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...Day 1 of redesigning cm-life.com: Organizing for simplicity
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Today has been a grueling day, the first of many to come over the next month. I began my foray into the CSS/PHP world on WordPress, with the help of CoPress’ Daniel Bachhuber (who, at the end of this, I’ll be sure to thank a thousand times), in redesigning Central Michigan Life’s Web presentation. The logo [...]
Continue reading...Conversing digitally at public events using Twitter
Sunday, July 26, 2009
PORTFOLIO UPDATE +1 Page Design (”Savory Sensations”) It’s amazing how a simple networking tool such as Twitter can be used in so many ways to communicate. The Grand Rapids Press, a newspaper crazier about Twitter than most, introduced me to another this summer. Grand Rapids hosted its 40th annual Festival of the Arts, one of the biggest West [...]
Continue reading...My initial thoughts on AnnArbor.com, the now-live online news organization
Friday, July 24, 2009
Late Thursday night, the party came early for AnnArbor.com. The site went live for the first time in replacement of The Ann Arbor News, which ended its long run the same day. Like I said in the previous entry, this is a big step for not just Ann Arbor, but for the journalism industry in general. [...]
Continue reading...All eyes are on AnnArbor.com on Friday
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Friday is a historic day for Michigan journalism. As one of eight Booth newspapers ends its 174-year run as a community staple, a new digital publication embarks that day which, for all we know, could symbolize a desperately needed transition in the state’s journalism industry. The Ann Arbor News, a newspaper in the town of about 114,000 [...]
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.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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