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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:33 PM

Kicking it Old School

Digital multi-media features are increasingly commonplace in today's news outlets as print and electronic media have begun irreversibly cross-dipping into technologies previously exclusive to each other. What we once only read on paper we see and hear
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:51 PM

Print headlines often fail Web readers

"County to raise taxes on property." "Smith calls for cleanup of polluted site." "City to approve land-use plan tomorrow." Headlines like those work just fine for a newspaper -- the print kind, the kind you pick up off your lawn in the morning
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:30 AM

Seeing the future of journalism, and trying to save it, in Denver

The Denver Press Club recently invited me to participate in a weekend workshop looking at the future, and the precarious present, of journalism.Denver Channel 8 taped my presentation and put it online.  My wife found it stunning that, 1) anyone would
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:22 PM

Jon Stewart asks his "depressing riddle" about newspapers

"What's black and white and completely over?" Jon Stewart asked last night on the "Daily Show." We knew the answer before he said it.Here's the video.It smarts.  But good satire is that way.That's why we're learning these skills for online. 
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:37 AM

CNN: A newspaper wire service?

Will CNN save newspapers from the Associated Press with a comprehensive wire service?
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:51 PM

Journalists' should make sure their voices are heard in community conversations

I'm catching up on reading, and blogging, after knee surgery. Still a little loopy on the pain meds, but I'll see if I can patch together some coherent sentences.I watched this video interview with social media guru Howard Rheingold. He's talking about
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Monday, August 18, 2008 3:30 AM

Your byline becomes a valuable commodity online

We all have to live up to our bylines. Credibility rules and people need to trust the words following our names.  But we bylines may never have been as valuable as they are right now. Last week, the journalism chat on Twitter turned to need
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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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Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:47 AM

Tweeting in courtroom provides a new way to cover a murder trial

The Twitter trial seems to be working.  So far. It's a modification of what we began last fall: live updates of a capital murder trial in the killing of a small-town Kansas sheriff. It was a way of live blogging from the courtroom. 
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:04 AM

A rant from Iowa State

Michael Bugeja directs a journalism school in 21st Century America, where he preaches that the Internet and new technology is “the scorpion” that will poison and kill journalism.In what I consider the best argument against tenure, Bugeja cursed the
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:00 AM

Your neighborhood news web site

The Palm Beach Post wants to deliver news to the neighborhoods.  I’m not talking about those old “Neighbors” sections that languished and failed so miserably in our print editions. I’m talking about Backyard Post. It took
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:51 PM

Go live

Angelique van Engelen of ReporTwitters, and my newest friend on Wired Journalists, introduced me to a utility that looks like it could be very valuable to online reporters.  Cover It Live is a new blogging tool to help reporters, well,
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:06 PM

Dogging the page views

Stan Finger set a new record for our web site Kansas.com with his story about a man arrested for having sex with a dog. I’ve provided a link but don’t click on it: you’ll just drive up the numbers. The popularity of the story does remind me
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:31 AM

Hot links

After a busy week of deadlines, I'm using the weekend to catch up on some reading: Comedy is easy.  Audio is hard.  Cyndy Green keeps sound in synch by giving good advice on which microphones are best.Mindy McAdams
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