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Coffee, plane tickets Speech, group photo and details Last day at Maynard  

Lyn Jerde, a veteran community journalist who covers county affairs for the Portage Daily Register, shared with the newsroom a story from Suburban Newspapers of America titled “Writing About People You Know.” It’s worth sharing here. The story describes “relationship … Continue reading →

On Monday evening, we screened the 90-second event videos we shot the weekend before last. Scott and I took our material from the Truckee Rib Fest, a fundraiser for the high school booster club in Truckee, Calif. The festival took … Continue reading →

Jeremy Gilbert, of Northwestern University, helped us make mobile html5-based pages on Thursday and Friday. Here are some of my classmates near the end of the session Friday.

This is a Soundslides project I made from audio and photos I took Saturday, June 11, 2011, of Daniel Caravallo, a Virginia City docent who plays the part of “Diamond Jim.”

Michelle Johnson, one of the Maynard instructors, shared a video about Conan’s editors’ take on Final Cut Pro X.

I covered part of the Reno Rodeo as a reporter Wednesday in a repeat of Monday’s continuous news exercise. For our purposes, continuous news coverage means sending news gatherers into the field to cover an event or breaking news and … Continue reading →

Jeremy Gilbert is in class today and Friday to show us how to create simple mobile apps. We’re about to restart after lunch.

We split the group into two six-person teams for a continuous news simulation Monday. On each team, three went to cover the rodeo live, while the other three stayed behind to act as producers. The pressure to get text, photos, … Continue reading →