Entries Tagged as ‘journalism’

August 18, 2008

Twittering the news the right way

When I started Twittering as @statesman, I immediately looked around to see how this is being done. Surely, I wasn’t reinventing the wheel, right?
After a quick Google search, I found this blog by Erica Smith that keeps track of newspapers that Twitter. I was surprised to see that many newspapers had a Twitter account. What [...]

August 17, 2008

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

As you all know, it’s not pretty out there for print media. My colleague Erica Smith keeps track of the layoffs in our industry.
Through it all, the Statesman managed to avoid layoffs, buyouts and other ugliness. In fact, it was one of the few papers that had somewhat weathered the storm. [...]

August 17, 2008

Starting to blog again

It has been a long time since I have blogged regularly, but I think the time has come. I Twitter all the time, but it’s time to say some things in >140 characters.
I won’t post things unless they’re useful. I’ll focus mostly on my trade (journalism) but I’ll also post whatever I find amusing.
To catch [...]