Category Archives: journalism
general perspectives on the journalism industry
Behind the scenes of Seattle Times’ new WordPress blog, The Today File
This week marks my fifth month at The Seattle Times, a perfect time for an update about what I’ve been up to. Almost since the minute I walked in the door, Eric Ulken has had me working on an unprecedented … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, life, wordpress | Tagged personal reflections, projects, seattle times | 12 Comments
AP’s new “linking” policy is not real innovation
And in an act of irony, I’m duplicating my efforts and re-posting this on my personal blog. I, unlike the AP, though, am inline linking to the original source. — If anything, the AP’s decision to start linking to original … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, new media | Tagged associated press, efficiency, hyperlinking, rants | 1 Comment
I’m headed to The Seattle Times
Big news today in the life of Lauren Rabaino: I am taking a job at The Seattle Times as a resident producer. For those of you who don’t know, I left Publish2 at the end of December. Since then, I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, life | Tagged announcements, eric ulken, new job, seattle times, seattle washington | 5 Comments
Detroit Free-Press uses Intersect to map and document Asian carp journey. My personal critique at 10,000 Words on Free-Press’ use of the storytelling tool. Overall, I don’t think it’s a good medium for the content type, but give them kudos for real-time, on-the-spot reporting.
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
Posted in internet, journalism, two cents | Tagged awesomesauce, communities, david cohn, information, knight foundation | 6 Comments
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
Posted in journalism, two cents | Tagged community journalism, controversies, ideas, istockphoto, openness, real meat, transparency, ucg, user generated content, vegan, vegnews | 4 Comments
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.
Lessons from Berkeleyside
In a quest to learn as much as possible about starting a local news site, today I published a post on 10,000 Words about Berekeleyside – an independent news startup based out of Berkeley, California. I did a Q&A session with … Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneurship, journalism, links | Tagged bay area, berkeleyside, entrepreneurialism, inspiration, q&as, startups, tracey taylor | Leave a comment
My new crazy idea: Startup time.
I bitch a lot. I know. My recent post entitled, “‘We can’t find a web editor?’ Bullshit” was a rant about how behind college media is and how I would quit the school publication and start my own gig if … Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneurship, innovation, journalism, two cents, Uncategorized | Tagged bill macfayden, crazy ideas, noozhawk, personal reflections, startups | 26 Comments
Presentation for ACP LA: Think Digital First
In a few hours I’m giving a talk at the Associated Collegiate Press conference in Hollywood about creating digital-first newsroom strategies. To most of you who read this blog, it’ll all sound like old news, but you’d be surprised how … Continue reading
Posted in journalism | Tagged ACP, ideas, mindsets, web first, workflow | 2 Comments
Daniel Victor’s true motivation behind a month-long series about dating. It really was about infusing reader contributions into the reporting process and breaking down the wall between pre-publication and post-publication.
This tweet by Joey Baker hits it spot on:
Newspapers: classifieds got Craigslisted, coupons beat by Groupon. Next to fall is syndication to aggregation, last will be investigation.
So, what happened to the Populous Project?
Daniel Bachhuber is seeking questions on his blog about the Populous Project. Writes he: The Populous Project is (was?) an open source, student news content management system which received $275,000 from the Knight Foundation’s 2008 News Challenge. It was supposed … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, journalism | Tagged accountability, disappointments, knight foundation, populous, questions | Leave a comment
Realtime reactions to Jim Brady’s departure from TBD.com
Is Jim Brady a serial innovator? Rapid innovation, followed by a launch, followed by departure and on to the next awesome project. In any case, here’s Twitter’s reaction to the sudden, unexpected announcement. I use Storify to round up reactions
Posted in journalism, people | Tagged coverage, social media, storify | Leave a comment
Introducing the Publishing Revolution
I am enormously proud to be a part of the team that is reinventing the way news content is distributed. Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt, Publish2 CEO Scott Karp announced the company’s newest product, the Publish2 News Exchange. The entire Publish2 … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, innovation, journalism | Tagged associated press, disruption, news exchange, news innovation, p2x, publish2 | Leave a comment
BCNI Notes: Design Roundtable “News Sites Still Suck”
Yes, this post is a bit delayed, but now that I’m on a flight home to Cali, I finally have a moment to finish it. My BCNI experience finished with a bang thanks to Major Highfield‘s roundtable discussion on news … Continue reading
Posted in design, journalism | Tagged bcniphilly, clusterfuck design, design, major highfield, news design, toronto star | 11 Comments
BCNI Notes: Howard Weaver on an emerging news biz model
Howard Weaver was at BCNI to talk about a new news model in Hawaii from the Honolulu Civil Beat (an outlet from Peer News) that wants to challenge the notion that “people won’t pay for content” (disclosure: it is a … Continue reading
Posted in innovation, journalism | Tagged new business models, peer news, revenue models for journalism | 5 Comments
If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault. Anil Dash is spot on. Part of maintaining a news website is maintaining community and having high standards. He outlines five steps every website should take to keep their community in order. Because whether we like it or not, quality of our comments reflects on how our organizations are perceived, and the quality of comments that will come up moving forward.