Category Archives: people

Help a bunch of bright-eyed high school journalists get to NYC

UPDATE: You can now donate to The Grizzly Gazette at gazettetonyc.info. I grew up in a modest town. Porterville, California. Population roughly 40,000. Mostly farmers. It’s a place that smells of cow manure. It’s the “armpit” of California, being the … Continue reading

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

Talks with a Yahoo news guru

Steve Enders, Cal Poly alumnus and senior product manager at Yahoo! News, gave a keynote lecture Thursday at Cal Poly’s journalism week and shared some interesting perspectives. A few things Steve emphasized: “I never thought I’d be where I’m at … Continue reading

Koci: Story of a multimedia guru

Guru: Teacher of wisdom, literally, one who takes you from darkness to light. Richard Koci Hernandez seems to fit that description in the realm of multimedia. I first met him at an ACP conference in San Francisco last spring. It … Continue reading