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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...Eight things your college newsroom needs to change (if it hasn’t already)
Friday, December 18, 2009
I spent a lot of today thinking about my college career and how the times have changed. In particular, Central Michigan Life has changed a lot in the 4.5 years I have spent there as a young journalist. Philosophies are different, mentalities are progressing and new trends are taking form while old ones are dying. This [...]
Continue reading...When news organizations use – and abuse – social media
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
I finally had a chance to join in #journchat on Twitter last night. It is a conversation among journalists that takes place from 8 to 11 p.m. EST on Mondays in which @journchat, the moderator, introduces questions (some of which come from other chatters) for journalists of all concentrations to discuss. The fourth question was this: [...]
Continue reading...Want to maximize Twitter’s capabilities in a newsroom? Don’t stop with the news feed: Add the human touch
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
If you’re a Twitter user like me, you probably have a handful of news publications, organizations and blogs giving you updates every time they add content. Which, in many cases, is nice to have. It’s like a quicker and simpler RSS feed. But if you’re like me, you also have certain publications, organizations and blogs that [...]
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...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...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...New feature: Read what I’m reading, thanks to Publish2
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Just yesterday, I added a new feature to the right sidebar on my page, below my recent posts and above my Twitter feed, called “What I’m Reading.” This is a widget designed to feed the stories I linked from Publish2, a collaborative journalism platform which, among its features, powers “link journalism.” It allows news organizations and [...]
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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