Author Archives: Danny Sanchez
About Danny Sanchez
Danny Sanchez is the Audience Development Manager at Tribune's Sun-Sentinel.com and OrlandoSentinel.com. Danny has been with Tribune since 2005 in a variety of editorial, digital and product development roles in Hartford, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. He has also previously worked in the newsrooms of the Tampa Bay Times and The Miami Herald.Guidelines for online communities
Metafilter founder Matthew Haughey has an excellent post on his blog about his suggestions for how to build online communities. Go read it, and read it again. Much of my time at the Sentinel involves working with a group of … Continue reading
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National Writers’ Workshop in Fort Lauderdale
Fresh from my inbox: Registration for the National Writers’ Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. is open! The workshop, hosted by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, is part of a series by the Poynter Institute with six stops across the United States. … Continue reading
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Online tools for freelancers
Lifehacker highlights a great list of 100 free or low-cost tools especially made for freelancers. The list includes project management tools, financial services, online storage/data transfer space and professional social networking sites. Missing from this list are a good RSS … Continue reading
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Google launches new maps blog
Google announced today a new blog called Google LatLong dedicated to providing updates on their Maps, Earth and Local services. “As web mapping (dare I say “the geoweb”?) matures, we’re finding that we have a lot more to communicate about … Continue reading
Media executives rip into Google
A panel of leading media executives took a combative tone against search engines during a panel discussion at the 56th annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Reuters reports. “The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern … Continue reading
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Under the hood of Observer.com
The New York Observer underwent a redesign using Drupal as its content-management system. The project leaders have posted an article on Drupal.org about how they redesigned the site, shoveled over 22,000 old articles and overcame the challenges they faced while … Continue reading
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Don’t learn the book, just do
[Photo by VJL] Mindy McAdams tells the tale of a student who recently came in wanting to become an independent video journalist. The problem: She doesn’t know a lick of HTML. See her advice to the student. Some like to … Continue reading
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NPPA Conference June 1-2
The 2007 NPPA Photojournalism Summit will take place in Portland, Oregon this year, and the speakers list features a who’s who of online talent. The list of multimedia speakers includes: Rich Beckman, professor of multimedia design and production at the … Continue reading
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Digg embroiled in user revolt over DRM postings
The popular news ranking site Digg is currently undergoing a full-scale revolt of its users after someone posted the copyright encryption code for HD-DVD discs. After Digg pulled the posting with the key, users soon got wind and flooded the … Continue reading
Online journalism to-do list
Bryan Murley over at Innovation in College Media has a great checklist of online-related tasks that college publications should be doing. But the list is also a good guide of tasks for those who want to get started in online … Continue reading
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Yahoo ad gone awry
This is just classic. [Photo by jkenning] Here’s a link for those of you non-geeks wondering just what the heck is so funny. Back story is here.
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Ouch. Newspaper circulation dips again
Editor & Publisher reports on big circulation declines at metro papers, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations: “As in the past, the losses are steep while gains are minimal. This is the fifth consecutive reporting period that overall newspaper … Continue reading
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