Tag Archive | "video"

Behind the scenes of 24MP: Covering our city, Mount Pleasant, in 24 hours via multimedia

Friday, October 30, 2009

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I meant to post something on this earlier, but never got around to it until now. As you can see from sporadic updating since late August, being editor in chief at a student newspaper can be a tiring job, and it leaks into my out-of-office life a little bit, too. But anyway… On Oct. 14, the staff [...]

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Journalism quick hits amid the redesign: J-schools need to move ahead

Monday, August 3, 2009

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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 [...]

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5 feature/profile reporting tips for beginning journalists

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Sometime last Spring, Central Michigan Life’s adviser, Neil Hopp, asked a coworker, Dan Monson, and I to spend some time working with some of the newer sports reporters on how to write extensive feature and/or profile stories. The request came after our Hearst wins – Monson placed 14th in Personality/Profile Writing for “Hidden pain” and [...]

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