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Linking the print product with the online product: Do your readers know what you offer online?
One part of the online battle for journalists is building an effective Web presence. But it doesn’t mean much if your readers know little about it. Admittedly, one of Central Michigan Life’s struggles throughout the past year has been consistently promoting its online content. Like most other student newspapers around the country, our only effective promotional [...]
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...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.
Monday, March 15, 2010
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