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Behind the scenes of Seattle Times’ new WordPress blog, The Today File

11/05/2011

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 project for our newsroom — a WordPress blog. So here I bring you, The Today Read More

AP’s new “linking” policy is not real innovation

07/23/2011

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 sources is a hindrance. Because now, in addition to news outlets everywhere reproducing the same Read More

Reflections on Hardly Strictly Young

04/27/2011

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 and lots of food. About 30 of us got together at the Reynold’s Journalism Institute Read More

What VegNews should do now that they’ve been called out on using REAL meat stock photos

04/14/2011

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 removing bones to make it look more believable). Needless to say, the vegan community is Read More

Lessons from Berkeleyside

03/29/2011

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 a co-founder, Tracey Taylor. It was an inspiring story and opened my eyes to the Read More

My new crazy idea: Startup time.

03/21/2011

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 I was still in college. But I don’t like people who bitch and don’t execute. Read More

Presentation for ACP LA: Think Digital First

03/04/2011

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 far behind colleges are in terms of rethinking mindsets and workflows. It shocks me every Read More

So, what happened to the Populous Project?

11/29/2010

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 to be the panacea for college media, solve all of our College Publisher woes, and Read More

Introducing the Publishing Revolution

05/28/2010

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 team sat huddled around laptops throughout our various locations in the U.S., cheering him on Read More

BCNI Notes: Design Roundtable “News Sites Still Suck”

04/29/2010

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 site design and mobile news design. For those of you who don’t know Major, the Read More

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