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Introducing ourselves?
Journalism is my second career, after the Marine Corps and odd jobs (some were more odd than others). I started as a reporter in Apache Junction, Ariz.
I've moved around a bit but have been at The N&O in Raleigh since late 2000. My duties there have next to nil to do with the Internet.
But I had a very small Web site around 2000. I started Journawiki a few years ago, but I slacked off because I got little help. I'm learning statistical software and competing in the Knight News Challenge.
My knowledge, technology and not, is often more broad than deep. My digital interests are less about storytelling and more about dynamic reporting and civic tools.
I've moved around a bit but have been at The N&O in Raleigh since late 2000. My duties there have next to nil to do with the Internet.
But I had a very small Web site around 2000. I started Journawiki a few years ago, but I slacked off because I got little help. I'm learning statistical software and competing in the Knight News Challenge.
My knowledge, technology and not, is often more broad than deep. My digital interests are less about storytelling and more about dynamic reporting and civic tools.
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Permalink Reply by Mindy McAdams on
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Hi, all. I teach online journalism at the University of Florida. Now, for those of you who think Florida is, ahem, a different country from the rest of the U.S., that might be true of SOUTH Florida, but not of North-Central Florida, where I live. This is a Southern state for sure. We are a five-hour drive north of Miami. We like our grits here, and we have too many chilly winter nights to grow oranges commercially. So there.
I know a lot about multimedia, especially Flash, and I conduct on-site training when I can take time away from my day job at the university. I'm also totally into helping other journalism educators figure out how to prepare the next generation of journalists.
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Permalink Reply by John Robinson on -
I've followed Mindy online for awhile now, Maurreen just recently through News Atoms, and don't you be copy editing this! I am an N&O refugee, having done my time there as a reporter in the early 80s. Also at papers in Monroe and Asheville, NC. I've been in Greensboro for 23 years and editor for the past eight.
I'm not all that wired, but I well understand the need and am pushing my staff to learn.
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Permalink Reply by Maurreen Skowran on
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John, I like the way you push: goals that are specific and objective, yet flexible, with rewards.
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Permalink Reply by Andria Krewson on -
Hi all,
I've been at The Charlotte Observer almost 23 years and spent three years in Jacksonville, Fla., before that. Grew up in Atlanta, and got a bachelor's in journalism from UGA, the oldest land-grant college in the United States. I sometimes take distance-learning classes from UNC, the second-oldest land grant colllege in the United States, and I think their colors are prettier. The campus is big enough, and distance-learning is cool enough, that I'll be OK if my kid, a high-school senior, lands at the same place.
I'm taking this semester off from class to wrap up the kid's senior year and because of a project at work (CCI Newsgate - we have another Ning site, a users' group site, etc.)
I'm fragmented online: a couple of old class blogs, (one of which I try to maintain), a shared blog at work, a neighborhood blog. J-interests: coding, design, need to learn more about Photoshop, CCI, how people work with CMS, taxonomy/folksonomy, sustainability. My last class paper (and first in 26 years) was on how societies should pay for their journalism, not just how they can pay for it. The writing stunk; the research was OK.
Deep family roots in the South, and family ties to Pennsylvania too. I'm not related to Chris Krewson of Philly, formerly of Allentown, unless you go back about 200 years.
I'm afraid ink has been in Krewson blood for a long time. Now it's pixels.
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Andria,
I'd love to learn more about your research on how societies should pay for their journalism. The market value generally seems to be diminishing. But nonprofit journalism is slowly growing.
My dad grew up in Pittsburgh.
You and John Robinson are much more geographically stable than I am. I have stayed in the country for about 23 years in a row. My average time to stay in any state is about four years.
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Permalink Reply by John Robinson on
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That's only because I'm old.
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Permalink Reply by Andria Krewson on
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I'm old too.
Paying for journalism paper linked here.
AJR has a new article about nonprofits and journalism. Stole my thunder, dern it.
My research included talking with David Boraks, former Observer employee, now journalist blogger/online editor for his town "paper," Davidsonnews.net. He's decided to go for-profit.
One point: Just because it's nonprofit doesn't mean it's unbiased.
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Andria, thanks.
One thing you wrote about that I hadn't known about was Google working with state governments.
One problem with the for-profit model is that local web sites, as far as I know, don't make much profit yet. It looks like the business side of the house needs to get more wired to support the editorial side doing so.
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