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The importance (and impact) of branding
Tuesday’s big story in azcentral.com sports (where I work) was the unveiling of Arizona State University’s new uniforms, logo and color scheme. This press conference was built up for some time by the ASU athletics department. This past Saturday, they offered a inside peek at the new identity via invitation only in nearby Scottsdale. And even [...]
Continue reading...Five things (some) news websites are doing right
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
We’re obviously not there yet when it comes to perfecting the online news site. And there’s probably a different answer for every community and every audience. But from reading and seeing the online presentations of multiple sites for the past few years, I can safely say a lot of newspapers are making strides in certain [...]
Continue reading...Publish2 aims to supplant the Associated Press, reinvent the news exchange with ‘P2X’
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
It isn’t often I write blog posts on back-to-back days, but I couldn’t resist after Publish2 revealed its newest project at TechCrunch Disrupt on Monday in New York City. The project is called P2X. Or, in longer form, the Publish2 News Exchange. Its goal? “Craigslist” the Associated Press. The idea behind P2X is to allow news and [...]
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...Newspapers need to set their sports coverage apart and make it better than anyone else’s – even ESPN
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
I don’t write too much about sports journalism. But reading McGuire on Media’s blog post on ESPN.com and newspapers got me thinking. ESPN, the mecca of sports media, is expanding its movement to go local with sports coverage. It started with ESPN Chicago, and now it’s expanding to ESPN Boston and ESPN Dallas/Forth Worth. Pretty soon, [...]
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...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...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.
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