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.YouTube’s greatest hits
Slate has put together a fun historical gallery of YouTube’s greatest videos. Among the favorites: two Israeli girls lip-syncing, Stephen Colbert’s roast of President Bush, Lonelygirl15‘s escapades, Michelle Malkin‘s rant and more. Makes you look back and see what a … Continue reading
The crowded media landscape
To help explain how journalism has changed in the last ten years, I tried to give my University of Florida brethren a picture of how the media landscape has been altered by so many choices. While this is not complete … Continue reading
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Share your wisdom with UF students
Next week I’ll be speaking to a group of first-year journalism students at the University of Florida who are just learning to love their dog-eared AP stylebooks. They (and my former professor) are expecting me to help give them an … Continue reading
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Ethics for the Web, Poynter style
The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. is attempting to spearhead an effort to create a set of guidelines for online news ethics. For a long time, I’ve been appalled by the lack of consistency in newspapers’ online correction policies … Continue reading
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Political ads, powerfully archived
The Washington Post has a neat feature called Mixed Messages in which they have archived televised campaign ads and archived them according to various criteria, such as state, party, characters, topics, narrator gender and so on. I can just imagine … Continue reading
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The Amish aversion to photos
(NOTE: I’ll be posting some more about the writers’ workshops I attended over the weekend in upcoming posts.) Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute had an interesting item in his Morning Meeting listserv message today about why Amish people generally … Continue reading
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Tales from the reporters’ blogs
From the National Writers’ Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Reporters from the newspaper triumvirate of South Florida came together as a panel to speak of the joys and dangers inherent in blogging. Palm Beach Post entertainment columnist Leslie Gray Streeter, … Continue reading
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Where the writers come to learn
Never before in this blog have I been so afraid to misplace a comma, write a cliché or deliver a spectacular grammatical gaffe. Authors, reporters and wannabe scribes have gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. this weekend for the annual National … Continue reading
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YouTube celeb ‘Lazydork’ is a Miami-Dade prosecutor
The Miami Herald reported today that “lazydork,” a YouTube star famous for rapping in his pajamas, is actually Richard Stern, a prosecutor for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. In one YouTube video (see below), he raps: “Couldn’t get more smiles … Continue reading
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Fun with the New York Times’ new Reader Beta
I got a wonderful little surprise last night in my inbox: an invitation to check out the New York Times’ brand spankin’ new Times Reader Beta. The Times Reader offers a new way to read the Times using an application … Continue reading
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More Web 2.0 than you can handle
Lost Remote tracked down a fabulous listing of Web 2.0 companies. Some of the names, such as Facebook, Google, flickr and more will be familiar. To be frank, I haven’t heard of the overwhelming majority of these sites. Take a … Continue reading
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YouTube phenom Lonelygirl15 revealed as hoax
YouTube star “Lonelygirl15,” who claimed to be a quirky homeschooled teenager named Bree, turns out to be Jessica Rose, a 21-year-old film actress and the product of a creative agency that intends to make a movie out of the whole … Continue reading
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