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Friday, October 26, 2007 8:04 PM

Limited Online Anonymity Across The Pond

A recent case in England could have serious implications in the U.S. when it comes to posting online comments anonymously.  It turns out some fans upset over their football (or soccer to the American crowd) team's management went to the Internet
posted by KamalWallace | 1 Comments
Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:48 AM

No. 3: Embrace databases

I started out my career putting together the agate page for a sports department at a midsize Midwestern daily.  I was 17. It didn't take long to learn the value of my job.  My sports editor used to say more people would read the agate page,
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:19 AM

Step 2: 'Hyperlocal content'

Don’t let the buzzwords bite you.  You know hyperlocal and have probably been doing it for years. Howard Owens said it best.  “Hyperlocal journalism is just a fad term for what good community papers have been doing for hundreds
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Friday, October 12, 2007 10:18 AM

MSNBC Acquires Citizen Journalism Web Site

I have returned to the world of online journalism after an much-anticipated event. More on that later... While I was gone, it looks like MSNBC picked up Newsvine. The site (http://www.newsvine.com/) allows people to submit articles and commentaries.
posted by KamalWallace | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:23 AM

Point No. 1: 'Own breaking news'

I started my career as a sport writer, then moved to news.  It broke many an editor’s rule of “you need a hard news background first.”  It also made me able to file faster than most hard-news reporters, three decades later.. Many
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:19 AM

Hey, we've got nothing better to do: let's save the industry

Rob Curley, a fellow self-proclaimed “nerd” from Kansas, wrote an excellent article in The Journalist about how news organizations can survive the tech race. “I’ve come to believe there are basically two types of newspaper publishers: those
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:48 AM

Getting into multimedia, video tips and cool apps

Mark Memmott said he became top blogger for USA TODAY and got an assignment to Afghanistan, simply because “I was the 48-year-old guy willing to give it a try.” Mark and I are the same age and share the enthusiasm for the digital future. 
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Monday, October 08, 2007 3:07 PM

Strong writing, defending quality: key advice from weekend workshops

Besides the legendary reunion of Woodward and Bernstein , the SPJ Convention had a wealth of multimedia and tech workshops.  It may take me a few days to catch up with all of it, but I plan to share as much information as possible.  To
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Friday, October 05, 2007 4:02 PM

Go to video

I know. I know.  I've really blown this blog thing lately.  But coming to D.C. to the SPJ National Conference has fired me up again. There's some multimedia training going on, but it's also great to talk to journalists around the country,
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