Four guys walk into a coffeeshop (The Cup, at 41st and East Boulevard) and offer to sing a Christmas song. (Recorded with the Voice Memo app on my iPhone. Some background noise, because the coffeeshop folk didn’t bother to turn off the background music, and the quartet had its back to me, so I needed [...]
As one semester dwindles and another looms, I need to tap into the broader intelligence. Specifically, I’m looking for feedback from journalists, teachers of multimedia and anyone else on content for a first-year news production course I teach each spring semester. The course started out years ago as 15 weeks of learning newspaper design, Quark, [...]
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In the morning sun on Fraser Street, around 44th Avenue, in Vancouver. iPhone photo, through the 6×6 TTV Noir Bar filter in Lo-Mob app.
My first reaction to news that some Dallas Morning News editors will now be reporting to sales-oriented GMs, was positively Munch-ian (or positively Caulkin-ian, for younger readers; either way, you get the idea). If you haven’t heard about it yet, you can find some details here. Briefly, the News has decided that editors of sports, [...]
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Write or Die (motto: Putting the Prod in Productivity) is an interesting tool to help journalists-to-be get to that magical point where they have the confidence to write quickly. The web-based tool (there’s a desktop app; more on that later) lets you set a word-count target and a time limit, then gives you a writing [...]
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