Telegraph staff photographer Corey Perrine is the 2008 National Press Photographers Association Region One Photographer of the Year following his victory in the group’s year-long monthly clips contest.
Perrine competed with photographers from across New England by entering photographs published in the newspaper each month.
His winning entries from throughout the year are below:
MAY
2nd Place Sports: Vaulted [...]

Well OK, online pretty much every year is a ‘beta test’ but for the Telegraph 2009 will be especially so.
We have a number of major projects on the horizon - including a complete replacement of both our print and Web content management systems. That transition, which is planned for late summer, will require us to [...]

I spent the morning at the New England New Media Association workshop in Lowell Mass. Steve Garfield, video blogger extraordinaire was on the opening panel discussion and hit me with a 30-second live streaming interview to demonstrate the technology:

Not sure why - but people really do love trains. We had a circus train pass through town today and a fair number of people turned out in the rain to watch it go by.

Photojournalist Bob Hammerstrom produced a video of the event:

When last we talked about comments (February 2008) we had abut 1,000 posts on our new system (hosted by Disqus.com) and we were trying to figure out how to best balance identity, anonymity, moderation and free speech.
We eneded up with a hybrid system. if your email address is unverified, your comments go into a queue [...]

I can only fault that they do not let you share and embed from the video player:
Two of a kind Audio and Video brought to you by boston.com

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 - [...]

ChannelOne (a news station for high school students) and NBC news broadcast a nice segment on the Telegraph-Nashua High partnership to cover the presidential interviews. Video after the jump… 

Some good news on the awards front today - the Telegraph has been announced as a finalist in two categories for the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Edge Awards.
We are up against some tough competition in the finals - but even being in the top three in these categories is a huge honor:

Best Overall News [...]