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Some digital updates from Walla Walla 
Carlos Virgen via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
I recently was promoted to Online Services Manager and tasked with expanding and growing our online content and products. Which means: Create features and websites that will attract all of Walla Walla. And here is a part-time web content person. Oh and make sure you do more outreach into the community and help fill niches.
These are all challenges that I welcome. In particular the communi
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Debate + bingo = nerdy fun!
Erica Smith via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
I created a new Web site yesterday: President Bingo. Grab a bingo card, watch tonight's debate (and/or the post-game commentary), and see who wins. Enjoy!
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Homegrown hyperlocal
Matt Neznanski via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
Banging the hyperlocal drum isn't anything new, but the big problem I've had with it is that as a reporter, chicken-dinner news is -- frankly -- a bore.
I do subscribe to the notion that the workings of government, grassroots advocacy and local characters all add up to an understanding of the formal "living in a city" coverage that a news organization should report. But when it comes to little det
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Multimedia teaching job in San Francisco
Rachele Kanigel via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Thu, 18 Sep. 2008
The Department of Journalism at San Francisco State University has a tenure-track job for a multimedia journalist. Check out the job description at http://www.spjchapters.org/norcal/2008/SFSU-job.html
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Looking for editor-reporters for local Web site
Steve Johnson via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Thu, 18 Sep. 2008
We're launching three local news web sites in New Jersey, just across the river from Manhattan, in the upscale commuter towns of Maplewood, South Orange and Millburn (20,000 pop. each). Web only, decent full-time pay and benefits. One editor per site, plus a hefty freelance budget, a shared ad sales manager, and a supervising editor who'll work with all of the sites to help out as needed. These ar
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(Re)Building a blog network.
Matt Neznanski via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Wed, 10 Sep. 2008
Oregon bloggers have been benefiting from a site called ORBlogs since 2003, an aggregator that allowed bloggers to be listed and promote content and gave readers a chance to find them by location or popularity.
ORBlogs founder (who had a hand in creating code for the original Blogger software) Paul Bausch said it was just getting to be too much for one
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Beat reporters pushing the practice
Patrick Thornton via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
I'm looking for beat reporters pushing the practice of beat reporting on the Web.
Reporters using online tools like blogging, social networking, Wikis, Google Groups, Google Sites, databases, etc to make their reporting better, more modern and more efficient. The kinds of reporters who embrace two-way communication.
If you know of beat reporters that fit this description, please let me know. In
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Search, data and the responsibilities of news orgs
Mike Orren via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
Originally published on our Square Pegs blog
I've had a couple experiences in the past couple weeks that have made me think hard about the consequences, intended and not, of how technology-- particularly search -- and news interact.
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The first came a couple of weeks ago when
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Egyptian journalist of Twitter fame needs your help!
Lacey Waymire via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Sat, 14 Jun. 2008
Two months ago you may have seen this story about a Journalism grad student who twittered his way out of jail. He was covering protests in Egypt when police tossed him and his translator in jail. Because he still had his cell phone, James Karl Buck was able to use Twitter, a text-messagin
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The Great Commenting Debate
Stephanie Romanski via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Tue, 20 May. 2008
To allow commenting on a newspaper website or not. I hate that I can see all sides of this issue. As a longtime internet user, I love the ability to comment right away on a news story I read. I know my 2 cents don't add up to much, but I feel better if I can voice my reactions to something. News sites that don't allow commenting are one sure way to prevent me from coming back.
On the flip side, i
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AP Style Standard Meets Social Media Revolution
Jason Kintzler via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Mon, 19 May. 2008
With 140 word Tweets, IM applications and new social media release templates calling for narrow, bulleted points it's no wonder the journalism and PR communities are so vocal about social media these days. If I were a veteran newsie, I'd be a little dismayed too.
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Entering the brave new world of being a reporter dedicated to the Internet
Travis Hay via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Sun, 18 May. 2008
My paper has recently taken some assertive and bold steps into the realm of Web reporting.
One of those steps involved hiring an editorial staffer to be the Web Editor. She deals with all things Web (except for coding and designing the Web page, I think) and handles all the editorial content.
Another step involved hiring a reporter dedicated solely to online journalism. This person (it's me, if
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Seeking workable ideas for a staff "rewards & recognition" program
Mitch Betts via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Thu, 15 May. 2008
I'm looking for recommendations for how to structure a "rewards & recognition" program for the whole staff. We'd been giving $200 AmEx certificates to news reporters for extraordinary efforts each month, but we need something broader to cover the whole staff (including features, online community, blogging, copy desk, etc.). For one thing, it's not fair to be recognizing j
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Got the data. Now what?
Casey Cora via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Thu, 15 May. 2008
So, our CAR ace has put together a preliminary framework in Django, I've been collecting data on homicides in our area since the first of the year. We have several searchable, sortable categories (age, race, address, homicide location, etc. ) and subcategories (weapon, weapon type, relationship to suspect/victim, etc.) and so far, so good.
The idea is to build a page about homicides, and I've got
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Be Part of the Future in Philly
Yoni Greenbaum via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Sat, 26 Apr. 2008
I'm hiring! I know, it's hard to believe in this economy, but philly.com is expanding its content team. What sets us apart from most online newspaper operations is that we're not simply an adjunct of the newsroom, but a separate company. We're more of a pure-play Internet company and that is reflected in how we think, what we do and who we hire. We need content producers/site hosts/channel manager
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Using Coverit Live during Website relaunch
Stephanie Romanski via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Wed, 23 Apr. 2008
I cannot say enough wonderful things about CoverItLive.com! Today is our paper's launch of our new design and we've experienced some "issues" with DNS propogation which was confusing for some of our readers. Being able to have a live chat running to discus
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Lessons from Leatherman
Matt Neznanski via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Fri, 18 Apr. 2008
I had a chance to hear Tim Leatherman, inventor of the multi-tool today (yes there is a guy named Leatherman). He was featured at Speakerlunch a monthly pep-talk for entrepreneurs put on by a local guy in Corvallis.
I came away with a couple of entrepreneurial le
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Interesting job at Nieman/Harvard
Michele McLellan via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Tue, 15 Apr. 2008
I wanted to alert folks to a job opening at Harvard. The Nieman Foundation is looking for someone to head a new Web site that will support digital journalism and to coordinate and display original research (think business model) with the Harvard business school. I've been consulting with the project. They need someone with strong vision and good project management skills. Here's the link:
http://j
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The long and the short of the net
Meghan E. Murphy via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Mon, 10 Mar. 2008
There's a discussion going on right now at Gangrey.com about whether people will actually read long stories online. Seems, in standard newsroom logic, some editors have decided that what works in print must work on the web. You know, "quick hit" stories and "News in Five" pages that made papers like USA Today take off. But, of course, this really irks us narr
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Some media-nerd scattershots that I'll later tie into something coherent, or not
Mike Orren via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wi on Sat, 02 Feb. 2008
From a James Lileks. column that provided inspiration when writing draft 1.0 of the PegNews business plan:
Blogs haven’t toppled old media. The foundations of Old Media were rotten already. The new media came along at the right time. Put it this way: you’ve see films of old buildings detonated by precision demoli
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