10.28.08     Tags: , , , , ,     Filed under: Uncategorized

Feed me your best feeds about online journalism, multimedia

Feed me, Internets.

I’m not shy about adding feeds to Google Reader. I’ve got 79, which is neither astronomical nor shabby. But today I noticed that I regularly turn to a mere handful for reliably good dirt on online journalism, social [...]

09.25.08     Tags: , ,     Filed under: Industry, Reflections

‘If you have no leaders, step up’

Mindy McAdams implores journalists who get online to do this in a recent post. And the sentence has been reverberating in my head all evening.

I’m fortunate to work for a newspaper where many people do get it. We commit sizable resources [...]

09.09.08     Tags: , , , , , , , , ,     Filed under: Great tools

Embeddable slides and other tools for journalists

Problem: I went to the Spokane County Interstate Fair on Sunday and took my camera. As usual, I uploaded my photos (mostly of rabbits — I don’t know why either) to Flickr. Great service, love the interface and community. But what [...]

09.02.08     Tags: , , , , ,     Filed under: Industry, Reflections, Work

Copy editing skills staying in demand

I came to the online world via the night news copy desk. I truly loved parts of that job: editing the wires, writing heds that thousands of people would see, catching mistakes at the 11th hour. But I decided to leave [...]

02.29.08     Tags: , , , , ,     Filed under: Great tools

Surfing on the shoulders of giants

When I shifted to the online producer’s seat last month, I had to get up to speed on a lot of stuff. Fortunately, the Web is brimming with resources that helped me do just that. Whether you need inspiration for a [...]