Monthly Archives: April 2011
Five Things AOL’s Patch Is Doing Right. My latest 10,000 Words post about things we can learn about openness and transparency from Patch, despite other criticisms of the hyperlocal effort. These are easily-adoptable concepts for all newsrooms.
Photos from Hardly Strictly Young at RJI
From April 17-19, a small group was invited to the Reynold’s Journalism Institute for a conference geared toward inventing alternate implementations for the Knight Commission report (read my reflections). These are a few moments snapped from my iPhone.
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Reflections on Hardly Strictly Young
Last week I learned that David Cohn knows how to tell a joke, bust a move and host an awesome conference. In all seriousness, the Hardly Strictly Young conference was a whirlwind of new people, old friends, big questions, bright ideas … Continue reading
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Thoughts on using Facebook Connect
A former teacher of mine saw my recent post on 10,000 Words about The Washington Post’s news aggregation tool, Trove, and wrote me a concerned email. She’s interested in using the app, but doesn’t want to hand over all her … Continue reading
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Weight lifting progress report
It’s been exactly two months since I started the StrongLifts 5×5 weight training program. The progress report so far (weight includes the weight of the 35lb bar): Squats: 52.5 lbs Bench press: 50 lbs Overhead press: 40 lbs Deadlifts: 65 … Continue reading
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Toppenish High student fakes pregnancy as social test about stereotypes, rumors. A high school senior in Yakima, Washington endured 6.5 months of rumors and stereotypes while faking a pregnancy on a quest to learn more about the life of a teenage mom. No one knew her secret but her mom, the principal, her boyfriend and best friend. She revealed the lie at a school-wide assembly, where she pulled off the fake belly after reading degrading quotes from notecards of rumors that were spread about her. She’ll publish a report on her experience soon. Power to this young lady for having the balls to not let ego get in the way of social experimentation.
On Shaky Ground: The Story Behind the Story. This interactive timeline from California Watch is one of the better uses of VuVox that I’ve seen to tell a story. It gives the behind-the-scenes of what resources went into their earthquake disaster series, complete with video and document counts.
Preliminary results from our informal Knight News Challenge survey. Daniel published the data gathered so far from an informal survey sent out to the 63 Knight News Challenge winners since 2007.
How to get the most out of your iPhone as a reporting tool. My latest post from 10,000 Words. Basically: present yourself legitimately, kill all your background apps, use airplane mode to avoid disruptions (calls, texts). And some links to cool resources.
Grizzly Gazette to NYC: A follow-up
You may remember my plea a few months ago to help raise money for journalism students at my former high school who needed to get to NYC to accept an award for their online news site, The Grizzly Gazette. Although … Continue reading
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What VegNews should do now that they’ve been called out on using REAL meat stock photos
Yesterday, QuarryGirl.com broke the news after an informal investigation that VegNews — the world’s top vegan magazine — has been publishing stock photos of real meat alongside vegan recipes and articles (while making slight alterations like changing the coloring and … Continue reading
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Gallery: Northwestin’
I took a weekend escapade to the Pacific Northwest last weekend. I stayed a night and full day in Seattle and two evenings in Portland. I got lucky and apparently hit the Northwest on the first rainless days in two … Continue reading
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Forbes Update: Re-Imagining a Magazine as Digital Media Marches On. A very thorough look at how Forbes is radically rethinking its print product through the lens of the web (with screenshots on page 2).
Hardly Strictly Young. Following Ryan’s lead, I too am honored and excited to be a part of the incredible list of attendees for Hardly Strictly Young, an event at the Reynold’s Journalism Institute. There are lots of new people I’ve been dying to meet, and many old friends that I can’t wait to meet up with again. See ya’ll in Missouri.