Aug
30
Some bits and pieces from the internet, some amusing, some not:
- ReporTwitters. Is now live. And I’m still not sure what it is all about. Maybe someone can help me out.
- Video class taught by… newspaper web guy. It helps that the newspaper web guy is from the Washington Post, hose video efforts are definitely industry-leading. (Now that I have a fast enough computer, I can watch their full-screen, HD videos. Gorgeous.)
- Journalism students get an A for selling $600 in ad space. Selling ads is a course requirement at a Florida high school. That should give ‘em a taste of the real world.
- Black on Black. The real world being, in this case, the continuing saga of the firing of a newspaper editor in Victoria, B.C., initially linked to a story that may (or may not) have pissed off advertisers. Sean Holman has been covering it and includes a memo from the newspaper chain leadership and it is all a fascinating look at the reality of community newspapering.
A note on that last item. I once worked briefly for Black Press. I know the company spokesman interviewed by Sean, Rick O’Connor, who was an executive in the small chain I worked for, which was bought by Black Press shortly before I left off newspapering.
