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Monday, August 18, 2008 3:30 AM

Your byline becomes a valuable commodity online

We all have to live up to our bylines. Credibility rules and people need to trust the words following our names.  But we bylines may never have been as valuable as they are right now. Last week, the journalism chat on Twitter turned to need
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:25 PM

Super ideas to save election coverage

Elections are coming up. Before you snore through another meeting about elections, read what Jack Lail and Scott Karp wrote about link journalism in the Neiman Reports, now online. Some newsrooms still are living in old school molds of
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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:50 PM

Keep stories short and let the data shine

I spent last week wading in data for our second biennial package "Judging the Judges." It’s a survey I helped develop two years ago with our local bar association, getting lawyers to help evaluate judicial performance.  We also elect
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:47 AM

Tweeting in courtroom provides a new way to cover a murder trial

The Twitter trial seems to be working.  So far. It's a modification of what we began last fall: live updates of a capital murder trial in the killing of a small-town Kansas sheriff. It was a way of live blogging from the courtroom. 
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:04 AM

A rant from Iowa State

Michael Bugeja directs a journalism school in 21st Century America, where he preaches that the Internet and new technology is “the scorpion” that will poison and kill journalism.In what I consider the best argument against tenure, Bugeja cursed the
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:00 AM

Your neighborhood news web site

The Palm Beach Post wants to deliver news to the neighborhoods.  I’m not talking about those old “Neighbors” sections that languished and failed so miserably in our print editions. I’m talking about Backyard Post. It took
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:51 PM

Go live

Angelique van Engelen of ReporTwitters, and my newest friend on Wired Journalists, introduced me to a utility that looks like it could be very valuable to online reporters.  Cover It Live is a new blogging tool to help reporters, well,
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:06 PM

Dogging the page views

Stan Finger set a new record for our web site Kansas.com with his story about a man arrested for having sex with a dog. I’ve provided a link but don’t click on it: you’ll just drive up the numbers. The popularity of the story does remind me
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:31 AM

Hot links

After a busy week of deadlines, I'm using the weekend to catch up on some reading: Comedy is easy.  Audio is hard.  Cyndy Green keeps sound in synch by giving good advice on which microphones are best.Mindy McAdams
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:11 AM

Student questions I'm still pondering today

A couple of questions asked by Randy Brown’s class last night still have me thinking today. Both related to quality and ethics. What happens to quality, one young man asked, when you’re covering breaking news in this immediate on-line
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:27 AM

Viva, Las Vegas

The online eyes in our newsroom today were ogling the Las Vegas Sun’s new multimedia site.Judging by discussion groups and bloggers, there was similar envy in newsrooms across the country. Look at the front page. There’s a variety of
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:57 AM

No. 7: Make it a dialogue

For those who haven’t read Rob Curley’s article in The Journalist, you need to.  It will inspire you.  Those just getting into this new era of journalism, and there are many, can use the article as a barometer of just where they
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 2:50 AM

No. 6: Make sure your content can work on any device imaginable

I personally would like everything to work on my mobile phone.  My son is too worried about the latest movie poll on Facebook to really worry about things what’s going on in the world outside his own room.  He’s 16 years old.  My
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Friday, November 30, 2007 1:29 PM

No. 5: Evergreen content

Where I work, the word “evergreen” brings groans from reporters. It describes the stories you have to do to fill the paper during holidays, when most everyone else is off and the news is slow.  On the web, it means something much more different. 
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:30 AM

No. 4: Multimedia

The KBI was envious. The special agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation were assigned to courthouse security in tiny Eureka, KS, for the capital murder trial of Scott Cheever.  Cheever was accused of killing the local sheriff. They
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