The ‘rewrite man’, of course, joins the ‘outside man’ the ‘linotype operator’ and the ‘women’s department girl’ as integral parts of any respectable daily newspaper.
 Found this on Journalism That Matters

I am working on a presentation for a college class - talking about the transition from print to digital newsgathering and figure it is about time that a Powerpoint (or Keynote actually) about multimedia actually use some multimedia to make the point.
So - I am gathering video of some of the best Journalism quotes/videos in [...]

An interesting story in the Globe today about an offbeat Website taking an anthropological approach to that species of Americans known as ‘white people.’
Stuff White People Like draws fans, criticism - and 16 million hits - The Boston Globe
Apparently it has gown a huge audience in two months - and drawn some charges [...]

Increasingly, Longworth told me, decision-makers get their news from elite sources and too many voters don’t get any news at all.
Chicago Reader | Hot Type | The Rust Belt Reader: Could a regional newspaper improve the midwest’s prospects?
I really want to agree with the thesis here - that newspapers are obliged to give [...]

You can almost hear the business models crumbling every time Google comes out with a new product/API.
The latest I have been looking at (not sure how recent it is?):
Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery - Google Visualization API - Google Code
Along with a sort of similar product from MIT: Simile Project
These are the kinds of tools [...]

A week after a round of layoffs - the Portland Press Herald announced today that they are up for sale.
Portland is a great city to live in and the PPH has always been well designed and a good read - so aside from the general economic downturn in the industry - this probably has as [...]

So, in an effort to update the blogs more often, I am testing out the Flock browser.
Pretty happy so far - it allows an easy XMLRPC connection to multiple blogs, as well as instant access to other social web services such as Del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter and others.
I am probably the last to this party - [...]

It has been far too long since I updated this blog - in some part due to a very busy Spring conference schedule.
Thankfully, Summer approaches and I hope to get back to blogging a bit more often.
Our Chief Photographer, Don Himsel captured me in action at the Northern Short Course on Saturday:  On Assignment