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Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:13 PM

Selling out the news?

Las Vegas TV station KWU apparently has decided to react to the drop in advertising dollars many news operations are experiencing by product placement on its newscasts.  Anchors recently delivered the news with iced coffees from a popular
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:25 PM

Super ideas to save election coverage

Elections are coming up. Before you snore through another meeting about elections, read what Jack Lail and Scott Karp wrote about link journalism in the Neiman Reports, now online. Some newsrooms still are living in old school molds of
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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:50 PM

Keep stories short and let the data shine

I spent last week wading in data for our second biennial package "Judging the Judges." It’s a survey I helped develop two years ago with our local bar association, getting lawyers to help evaluate judicial performance.  We also elect
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:28 AM

A curmudgeon journalist gets inspired: a short subject

FADE IN: (After a busy week wrestling with a data project, RON is catching up on his reading, scratching his head like a curmudgeon. We hear the narration of his inner voice, resembling Woody Allen): MERANDA WATLING wrote a post on her blog
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Friday, July 18, 2008 1:58 AM

Good tips to read, remember and share with everyone in your newsroom

Good tips are worth remembering and repeating. Here are some from Bill Dunphy of Web U (via Mindy McAdams) Are there original documents you can link to?Are there any photographs (related videos, sound files, slideshows)?Can
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:27 AM

A murder caught on video, reported in multimedia

I picked this up and realized I hadn’t blogged in almost a month.  Part of it is the intense energy I bring to work every day.  I’m sapped by the end of the day, running my the work blog on courts, trying to complete the enterprise projects
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