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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.The ethics of hunger
The New York Times‘ Michael Wines has written a compelling piece on how journalists deal with the crushing poverty they encounter in the course of their reporting. Wines essentially argues that it is ethical to provide help to people after … Continue reading
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Google strikes with map coupons
The New York Times reports on how Google is now allowing businesses to upload coupons for free onto its Google Maps service. The acrimonious lede, which I confess I enjoyed, goes: “Google is expanding its local directory business using the … Continue reading
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Photo doctoring hall of fame
Check out this Web page with a great list of infamous doctored or manipulated photos. The site makes for a great set of examples for pointing out what are some unacceptable uses. Photos on the page range from clone stamp-happy … Continue reading
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The fix is in: blurry photos
CNet reports on a shiny new statistics-powered method for fixing images that are blurred from camera shake. And it takes a whiiiiile (like 15 minutes), according to the article. Here’s a description of the method: “The technique is based on … Continue reading
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My kingdom for a sat phone
Paul Conley spins a great “when-I-was-your-age” yarn about his encounter with a stubborn payphone in 1986 while trying to file a story for NPR. In order to send my interviews to D.C., I had to connect my tape recorder to … Continue reading
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What lurks beneath AOL
There’s a Web site up now where you can poke around the searches of millions of AOL users, information that was accidently released to the public. Check out AOLSearchDatabase.com. Google hasn’t indexed it as of this writing. Using some computer-assisted … Continue reading
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TV station citizen journalism
Check out this TV Technology.com story about how TV stations are getting into all the citizen journalism rage. (via Online Journalism Blog) Being that there are only so many folks out there with cameras, it seems as if though media … Continue reading
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Look into my eyes…
SmartMoney has a great article on how to use your eyes to influence people, win friends and improve your daily dealings with others (via Lifehacker). In journalists’ case, using your eyes could help you get the story and build sources. … Continue reading
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Alert: Internet Explorer 7 downloads automatically
Microsoft will be releasing its new Internet Explorer 7 as an Automatic Update, according to a CNET report. This update stuff is a huge deal because: a) it will likely cause a quick, sharp drop in IE6 users since it’s … Continue reading
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More conferences, wonderful conferences
A few more conferences coming to my home state of Florida: Poynter’s National Writers Workshop is coming to Fort Lauderdale on Friday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 1. Being that the conference is over a weekend and a measly $90 … Continue reading
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Online News Association conference registration open
Come one, come all! Registration for the ONA conference in Washington D.C. on Oct. 5-7 is officially open. Yee-haw! Here are the details from ONA: Early bird registration fees are $399 for ONA members, $549 for non-ONA memebers. Early bird … Continue reading
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Gannett buys college paper FSView
In a suprising move, Gannett has bought up Florida State University‘s independent newspaper, the twice-weekly FSView, according to a report from Inside Higher Ed. This news strikes close to home, as I was a former metro editor at the Independent … Continue reading
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