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Daily Cover it Live Show: Lessons Learned
By: Steph on: Nov 9,2009 In: Tools of the trade, Working on the NewsroomAfter close to nine months of doing am:gi, a daily morning “conversation” with our readers, we ended the show a little over a week ago. Why? Because it’s time to take what we’ve learned from it and evolve the concept a little. There was some pressure from above to do something with the show. Either [...]
Frustration level: High
By: Steph on: Oct 19,2009 In: Musing, Tools of the trade, Working on the Newsroom“Who cares what I had for breakfast?” I swear, if I see that line in one more article about the positives and/or negatives of Twitter, I will scream. It’s a classic example of what makes Twitter so hard to “sell” in my newsroom and my small community. I attended a meeting recently with several community [...]
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News/Online Merge: The first week
By: Steph on: May 11,2009 In: News/Online Merge, Social Media, Working on the NewsroomI will eat some crow now. I have done a complete about-face on my views about open plan environments for newsrooms. It was my own personal dislike of not having much in the way of privacy that made me so grumble-y about it. But after a week of sitting in view of the City Editor [...]
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