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.10-minute tutorials for the Flash-impaired
Flashionista and University of Florida professor extraordinaire Mindy McAdams has published some long-awaited tutorials on how to use Flash. The tutorials, each 10 minutes long, are geared toward those of you who have yet to crack Flash open or are … Continue reading
Tutorial: Speedy text edits with Microsoft Word hidden characters
Ever had a really long block of text that needed an extra line after every mark? Or are there random extra spaces littered throughout some text you received? Are Word macros a mystery to you? Being a busy Web producer … Continue reading
Typetester: Tool to compare fonts online
Typetester is a wonderful little online tool that lets you quickly compare just about every aspect of type that can be altered using CSS. The tool lets you compare font, leading, size, word spacing, weight, text decoration and much more. … Continue reading
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Journalism ethics in an understandable nutshell
The world of journalism ethics can be a complicated, scary place. The New York Times’ code of ethics [PDF] is almost thick enough at 57 pages to qualify as a textbook. Even some of the shorter ones, such as that … Continue reading
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Center releases study on newspaper business blogs
A study released today finds that business blogs have not caught on at smaller publications, that they often focus on local issues, and that topics varied broadly without a particular emphasis. Field of Words blogs really helps you in the … Continue reading
New Google Maps tutorials for PHP, MySQL
The folks over at Google Maps have just written up some new rockin tutorials on how to do neat, advanced stuff with map mashups. I’ll be tearing through these soon, at least once I pick through some of the loot … Continue reading
NYTimes.com rolls out double-click reference
NYTimes.com has apparently rolled out a feature wherein users can double-click any word in a story and a dictionary or encyclopedia page will pop up. There’s a small, easy-to-miss line at the bottom of stories explaining the function. Very nifty … Continue reading
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Virginia Tech newspaper front pages
Newsdesigner.com has an excellent roundup of front pages, both in the U.S. and international, of the Virgina Tech massacre. Make sure to take a look at the Collegiate Times‘ touching treatment of the story and see what designers everywhere are … Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph takes heat for Virginia Tech article
The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia is taking heat from U.S. readers for publishing the photo of one of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre and characterizing her as having “sparked” the killings. The Telegraph published a note inside … Continue reading
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Newsday’s Handelsman wins Pulitzer for Flash cartoons
In what I believe to be a first, an editorial cartoonist who also creates Web animations from his work has won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The Pulitzer entry from Walt Handelsman of Newsday includes his Web animations. … Continue reading
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Online journalism bloggers on Virginia massacre
A roundup of some online journalism bloggers’ posts regarding today’s shootings: [UPDATE] Poynter’s Al Tompkins has links to all sorts of excellent coverage: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=121541 Steve Outing: Social networking plays a role in another big story Bloggers Blog: Blogs, Cell Phones … Continue reading
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Legal advice for bloggers, citizen journalists
The Online Journalism Review has an excellent article with some practical legal advice for bloggers. The article discusses the case of videoblogger Josh Wolf, as well as some of the legal implications of a blogger code of conduct. But here’s … Continue reading