Updates

Tip sheet for aspiring journalists, Twitter page and other things I’ve been working on

It’s been awhile since I updated this, so I thought I’d write up a snapshot of what exactly I’ve been up to the past month or so.
On the online front, we have an online editor at Central Michigan Life — Dave Veselenak, who was managing editor last fall. This makes it a lot easier on [...]

Journalism, Updates

The short-lived Detroit Daily Press seemed doomed from the start

I get pretty excited anytime something new or innovative happens in the field of journalism. Recent example include Google Wave, the Texas Tribune and even AnnArbor.com, to an extent.
The Detroit Daily Press was not one of them. Click the link for further proof.
For those of you unfamiliar with the venture… brothers Gary and Mark Stern, [...]

Journalism, Updates

Five goals for Central Michigan Life’s Web site the rest of the semester

As you can probably tell from the sporadic posting on this blog, my life has been, for the most part, Central Michigan Life.
We’re in the middle of Week 4 of the semester – football season is under way, our first CMU Board of Trustees meeting is Thursday and the archives from as far back as [...]

Journalism, Photography, Social Media, Updates

Tomorrow, it begins: The official redesign of Central Michigan University’s student newspaper

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 [...]

Journalism, Updates

My initial thoughts on AnnArbor.com, the now-live online news organization

Late Thursday night, the party came early for AnnArbor.com. The site went live for the first time in replacement of The Ann Arbor News, which ended its long run the same day.
Like I said in the previous entry, this is a big step for not just Ann Arbor, but for the journalism industry in general. [...]

Journalism, Updates