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Live from the Society of News Design conference!
Hey Journalistopians, I’m blogging from the Society of News Design’s annual conference here in Orlando, Fla. (conveniently located minutes from my new home!). The SND conference this year officially opened with a keynote address by Robin Sloan and Matt Thomnpson, … Continue reading
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Editorial board rocks the vote with video
Big kudos to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for posting full videos of the editorial board’s interviews with Florida’s gubernatorial candidates. The page features the entire interview with smaller clips broken down by topic (I’m sure THAT was fun to edit). … Continue reading
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Scarborough: Online readership growing
Web readers can account for up to 15 percent of a newspaper’s audience, according to a recent study by Scarborough Research. The study analyzes the percentage of readers who only read the paper, readers who read both and readers who … 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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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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