I’ve gotten to write some fun stories lately about innovative college students, online news startups and news consumers donating to good causes they hear about in the news.
Here’s some of my most recent Poynter Online work:
“Texas Tribune’s Launch ‘Just the Beginning’ of Databases, What’s to Come,” Nov. 4
“CoPress Pushes Innovation, Shows Value of Open-Source Platforms,” [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Journalism’
November 6, 2009
Recent Poynter Online Stories about Student Journalists, Online Startups and More
October 19, 2009
Looking for Ways to Recognize the 75th Anniversary of Providence College’s Student Newspaper, The Cowl
Wednesday nights used to be “put the paper to bed and forget about sleep” nights. As editor-in-chief of Providence College’s student newspaper, The Cowl, I’d often stay up until 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. editing final versions of stories, re-reading headlines and making sure the paper didn’t contain any glaring errors. Perfectionism often kept me [...]
September 15, 2009
Meeting Three Journalism Pioneers: Koppel, Schieffer and Brokaw
This week, I met Ted Koppel when he came to The Poynter Institute Monday night to talk about the state of the media. I live blogged Koppel’s talk for Poynter Online and then wrote a recap of what he had to say. One of the topics he talked about at length was social media and [...]
September 10, 2009
Recent Poynter Online Stories about Orange County Register, Kansas City Star Columnists
My last two stories for Poynter Online have been about two columnists who made headlines after making decisions that readers and journalists found fault with.
The most recent story, published Thursday on Poynter Online, talks about the backstory behind a sports column that the Orange County Register’s Mark Whicker wrote earlier this week. In the column, [...]
August 10, 2009
Learning the Craft of Journalism from Providence College’s Roy Peter Clark ‘70 & John Quinn ‘45
While in college I regularly sought guidance and support from journalists whose work I admired. My alma mater, Providence College, didn’t have a journalism school, so internships, editing my college newspaper and having mentors helped teach me the skills I needed to pursue a career as a journalist and have any chance of succeeding.
In particular, [...]
July 20, 2009
St. Petersburg Times Turns 125
The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times is getting up there in age. This month the paper turns 125.
The paper’s longevity is a testament to the good work that its journalists have produced throughout the years and that they continue to produce during a tumultuous time in the news industry. In a special, July 19 pull-out section [...]
July 9, 2009
Updates from the Past Few Weeks
It’s been a crazy past couple of weeks, but I’m now settled in my new apartment and will have more free time for my blog. Work has been busy, too, but in a good way. I’ve been mostly editing stories and Webinars and haven’t had as much time for writing lately, but I’ve found a [...]
June 19, 2009
AP Stylebook Sales, Web Traffic Increase
Looking to write a story about the Associated Press Stylebook’s Web site redesign, I interviewed a few of the people who help run the site and the printed version of the stylebook. They told me that Web traffic had increased, which led me to think that sales of the printed version had likely decreased. Not [...]
June 15, 2009
Old Editorial Touts Newspapers As ‘Wave of the Future’
Recently I came across an editorial that I wrote for The MetroWest Daily News, the newspaper that I interned at in high school and freelanced for during winter breaks in college.
Reading the editorial, which I wrote in July 2006, the summer before senior year, made me laugh. It’s clear that I was overly optimistic about [...]
