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Hey, J-schools: You’re doing it wrong.
The inspiration for this post comes from this well written piece by Lauren Rabaino (who you should be following on Twitter, too, if you’re at all interested in journalism). It was around the summer of 2009 when I began participating in Twitter chats such as #journchat, #wjchat and #collegejourn. If you’re unfamiliar with these, they are [...]
Continue reading...Do you party like a journalist?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
A bit of background: About a week and a half ago, I finally earned my invite to try out Storify, a social media storytelling tool that allows you to combine tweets, Facebook posts, videos and more to tell effective stories. One of my favorite simple examples of Storify’s use is Adam Schweigert’s story of Ted Williams, [...]
Continue reading...How to train your Webslinger: A creativity boost through engagement
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sometimes it takes a sitdown with some of the more creative minds in social media and journalism to get your brain into overdrive. That’s how I viewed the first meeting of the “Webslingers,” a group of about 15 Phoenix-area journalists, social media gurus and Web geeks (some would classify under all three) formed by Arizona Republic [...]
Continue reading...My quick take on TBD.com, a new interpretation of online news
Monday, August 9, 2010
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...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...Michigan news media aggregating an unlikely earthquake
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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...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...What reporters and newspapers can learn from the Phoenix Suns
Monday, May 24, 2010
First, a disclosure: I’ve been a Phoenix Suns fan since the mid-’90s, the days of Charles Barkley, Dan Majerle and Kevin Johnson. So I’ve been following them a long time, and especially now, since they’re in the Western Conference Finals. The Suns also reached the conference finals in 2005 and 2006, both losing efforts — but [...]
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.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
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