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What news organization do you work for?
Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph
Which of these best describes your day job?
Reporter
About Me:
I've been at the paper for 21 years. I'm a reporter and columnist (the weekly "Science from the Sidelines," northern New England's only regular sci/tech column), plus I organize certain special projects and run the blog GraniteGeek, "Sci/tech tidbits from in and around New Hampshire."
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Beating the competition - redefined

A seasoned reporter here in the newsroom just redefined "beating the competition" for the online age: He was delighted because he posted a breaking news item to our blog before the subject's wikipedia article was updated! Oh, what hath Web 2.0 wrought? (The item concerns Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling probably retiring.)

Posted on June 20th, 2008 at 7:05am — 2 Comments (Add)

Low-tech crowdsourcing

This may draw hoots of derision (derision only comes in hoots, I believe) from people with technical knowhow, but The Telegraph of Nashua, NH, has launched its first crowdsourcing-ish project, using cut-and-paste, rather than any specialized software-type stuff. The background: Verizon recently sold all its phone lines in New Hampshire (and Maine and Vermont) to a small company, FairPoint. We covered the sale in the usual ways but we weren't sure how to keep an eye on the corporate handoff, sin… Continue

Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 12:32pm — 4 Comments (Add)

Sometimes, boring is good

The online project that I'm most excited about at my paper (the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph) is really boring - thank goodness. There's no video, no audio, no interact maps, no Twitter or other goofy-named app, nary a speck of user-generated content. A kindergarten-level searchable database built on Caspio is the only thing that's mildly cutting edge - but it's a butter-knife edge, at most. The project deals with Town Meeting season, wildly important in New England but loaded with the usual hyper-l… Continue

Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 5:57am — 4 Comments (Add)

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At 9:59am on April 18th, 2008, Kevin said…
Cool blog!!!
At 3:12pm on March 9th, 2008, Meghan E. Murphy said…
Hey Dave,
Read your blog - how did you convince your newsroom to change your job description? And how is it going so far?

cheers,
meghan
At 5:41pm on January 28th, 2008, Don Himsel said…
Well someone has to ask. What's the math mumbo jumbo represent up there?
At 1:28pm on January 25th, 2008, Rony Camille said…
Hi Dave,

The Medical Unit is based out of the Boston Bureau in Needham, Mass just across the highway from Ch. 5 -- I'm doing the commute from NH daily -- I don't know which is worse driving from Nashua to Needham and sitting in pockets of traffic on Rte 3 and 128 or the 27 traffic lights from Amherst St to the Milford Oval.
Still reading local coverage via The Telegraph good job.

hope all is well?
At 12:03pm on January 25th, 2008, Kathy Schwartz said…
yeah, why not? :-) Good to hear you're having fun.
At 11:29am on January 25th, 2008, Kathy Schwartz said…
Still writing Science from the Sidelines, eh? How are you Dave????
At 8:19am on January 24th, 2008, Ryan Sholin said…
Welcome! Glad to see Damon bringing in more, uh, Nashua-ites? Nashuans? People from New Hampshire.

Jump into the Groups area - I'm sure you could help out in the "New to Blogging" group!
 
 

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