July 22nd, 2008 | by Derek | published in Journalism
My friend Dave Gulliver had a fascinating piece in his paper on Sunday about the birth of quadruplets in a Sarasota hospital. It’s a great story, but what makes it greater is that it was written by somebody with a certain amount of expertise on the subject of difficult premature multiple births. I hope Dave [...]
June 29th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Journalism
Been awhile since I wrote about Caspio, and since then they’ve only gained more media clients, which I suppose could be a lesson for me. But I think not. Rather, I hope what we’ll see in the months and years to come are the lessons that Matt Wynn offers from his experiences using Caspio. Here’s [...]
June 19th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Journalism, SLA
At the recently-completed SLA conference in Seattle, Nora Paul led a session on the “future of news libraries” that asked the attendees to imagine 2012, when librarians (or news researchers, or whatever you want to call them) are recognized as leaders of innovation in newsrooms, and then to explain how that came to pass. It [...]
May 24th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Journalism
Note to visitors coming via Jay Rosen’s Twitter feed: Nowhere here do I say that Curley and his team were “not effective” at WPNI. Not effective as they could have been is a better reflection of my thoughts.
So: Curley and Co. to Las Vegas, one of the non-secret secrets of the Web journalism world. Among [...]
April 7th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Data, Journalism
There have been a number of job listings lately looking for folks with database and Web skills. Just highlighting a few:
The Tulsa World wants “web programmers” and an Online Database Coordinator.
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is seeking a Data Desk Manager to oversee its team of database folks.
AP is looking for a business news data [...]