Howard Owens
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  • Pittsford, NY
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Job Title
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GateHouse Media
Bio
Howard Owens has been a journalist for more than two decades. He's been a daily and weekly reporter and editor, as well as a community news publisher. In 1995, he co-founded East County Online, the first web site in the U.S. serving a group of weekly newspapers. From 1999 to 2005, he worked for the Ventura County Star, becoming director of new media in 2004. The Star won numerous awards for its web sites during those six years, including a General Excellence award from the Online News Association. In 2005 he was named VP of Interactive Media for the Bakersfield Californian. Since September 2006, Owens has been director of digital publishing for GateHouse Media, Inc. He is a member of the NAA's Digital Media Federation board of directors and serves as the chair of the Federation’s audience development committee, and is a member of the NAA’s audience development committee. He blogs about newspapers on the web at howardowens.com and maintains a personal blog at hbo3.com.
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http://gatehousemedia.com
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http://howardowens.com
Twitter URL
http://twitter.com/howardowens
LinkedIn URL
http://www.linkedin.com/in/howardowens

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Today's journalist: Be an expert, dig deep, and stay on top of the information flow

Informative intervirew on CJR with Jesse Eisinger and Jesse's financial coverage leading up to the Wall Street meltdown.



In an era when readers are confronted with a fire hose of information, and with their choices increasing, when media is fragmented -- the competitive advantage for the individual journalist is to become… Continue

Posted on December 7, 2008 at 12:08pm

A look at web-native coverage of the news

Go read Scott Karp's post on coverage of the Bear Stearns story. It's an interesting case study in the differences of how journalism works in a web-native world vs. a print world. Of particular interest is the difference in coverage of NYTimes.com (not so interesting) vs. a NYT blog (very interesting).



I'll say it again: If you want to grasp web journalism, you need… Continue

Posted on March 17, 2008 at 7:24am

Domain now properly working as wiredjournalists.com

Mainly because of my own lameness at following through, we haven't had the domain wiredjournalists.com working for this site as originally intended.



After the appropriate exchange of e-mails with the hosting company where I parked the domain, wiredjournalists.com is now working as the domain for this site.



If you re-bookmark this site to work under that domain (instead of mediageeks.ning.com), you'll be asked for your login information again, but after that all the URLs… Continue

Posted on March 16, 2008 at 5:59pm

Unique job opportunity with GateHouse Media

Here is a chance to do something completely different.



GateHouse Media is looking for two ambitious, entrepreneurial individuals to help us reinvent local journalism.



The ideal candidate:



* A recent college graduate (or graduating this spring)

* At least six months experience blogging

* Capable of shooting and editing his or her own video

* Ready to do more than sit in an office and make phone calls or pull the latest agenda item from a city… Continue

Posted on March 3, 2008 at 1:36pm — 20 Comments

Social networking is a sprint that doesn't end

Steve Buttry of API is making a serious effort at getting more wired.



He write about exploring social networks here.

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The thing I can say most certainly after a few months of serious social networking is that I know enough about it to know that I really don't

know much. The cliché of political campaigns (especially for the early

losers) is that… Continue

Posted on February 8, 2008 at 8:53am

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At 12:31pm on September 10, 2008, Claire St. Amant said…
i read this in the times and thought it might interest you.
At 11:07am on September 8, 2008, Henry Howard said…
Just saw your Batavia web site. Very cool. Great way to get community news in the hands of readers.
As a side note, Muckdog fan Patrick Weissend is a good friend from high school.
At 6:58pm on June 24, 2008, Claire St. Amant said…
Thanks, Howard. We have quite the virtual friendship going here.
At 3:37pm on February 19, 2008, Wendy Withers said…
I just saw a job opp for Gatehouse in Marshfield, so I applied for it. I think I'm going to jump on every Gatehouse opp I see.
At 11:26am on February 11, 2008, Wendy Withers said…
Less than three months until Gday. Pretty soon, I'll have some video packages to send your way, maybe even projects made with Flash.
At 6:19pm on February 5, 2008, Howard Owens said…
If you go to the group ... look for the big link on the left that says something like "join this group"
At 4:29pm on February 5, 2008, Jeff Gauger said…
Howard, I can't figure out how to join a group. What am I missing?
At 10:58am on February 4, 2008, Roberta Fusaro said…
The information gaps aren't intentional, Howard. I just haven't had time recently to fill them in...
At 12:25pm on February 3, 2008, Jennifer Schraag said…
Loving this network! Thank you.
At 7:01am on February 2, 2008, Anderson Costa said…
It's done, Howard. By the way, congratulations for this community!
 
 
 

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