Back in the day, for several hundred days, I was the editor for three community newspapers and wrote a weekly column for a daily newspaper. That meant that everything I did that week came out on Thursday. It was the one day of the week I could take at least half a breath — and it was the day when it hit the fan. If I wasn’t getting calls about the column, then someone was accusing us of having personal vendettas against high-school kids because his kid’s photo wasn’t in the paper. Despite all that, Thursdays were actually kind of fun.
The Great American Snapchat Experiment
Recently, our newsroom was eligible for various Poynter Institute training that mostly served as a updated road map to digital and social media tools in this new journalism age. Most of it was really useful. But there was one that blew my mind, not only regarding the presenter (OK, look. You don’t ever use the … Read more