Category Archives: Media Matters
Martinsville house fire
Much of my day is spent tapping away at a keyboard, a phone receiver wedged between a sore neck and a shoulder blade. Every once in a while the keyboard taps are interrupted by a police scanner, where excited EMS … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Newspapers, Photography
A new look
Above the fold of today’s newly redesigned paper. (Anything look familiar?) While there are some small wrinkles yet to iron out, I’m really happy with how it turned out, especially after holding it in my hands this morning. You can … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Newspapers, Wilmington News Journal
DADT.
Leave it to a political cartoonist to cut through the vague political discourse on both sides of the aisle. In the end, does it really matter?
Filed under Media Matters, Newspapers
I can have an opinion?
Today I took a stab at editorial writing, something I haven’t done (for print) since my days at The Lantern. It was pretty refreshing to be able to insert my opinion in a story without recoiling, doubling back and scrubbing … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Newspapers
This is why I love community news.
While proofreading pages tonight, I came across this gem of an ending graf in a family reunion article on our Social page. As the week ended, out-of-town members departed for home. On Saturday on the way to North Carolina, the … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Newspapers
Let me pay: A case against “free”
Frank Chimero penned a good post on his blog a few days ago, in an open letter to the Internet. In it, he describes why he’d sometimes rather pay for content and programs than rely on the “free” nature of … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Uncategorized
The MoJo’s toolkit
In the fall of 2007, I was in Washington for the annual Society of Professional Journalists conference, an organization with student chapters at journalism schools across the country. I went alone, because no one else from my chapter could make … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Photography, Writing / Reading
The Only Game in Town
An item posted today on a blog for Philadelphia Magazine tells the story of Dan Robrish, a former AP reporter in Philly who is now living a sort-of superhero life in rural Pennsylvania. He quit his beat after 12 years … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Random Musings
In a picture: the state of the news industry
I love how this one picture, taken somewhere in Washington, D.C., completely sums up all of the problems facing the news industry in America. People want content, but they’re not sure they want to pay for it. In its defense, … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Random Musings
