In this week’s career chat, we talked to Doug Mitchell and Alli Joseph, the folks behind NewU: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY.
Created in 2009, NewU is a program for journalists of color who want to become entrepreneurs. New … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Chrys Wu, journalist and user engagement strategist. Wu, who has worked in newsrooms from coast to coast, now helps businesses deepen their connection to their audiences through community-building strategy and research.… Read more
Last week, LA Laker basketball star Kobe Bryant was caught on video mouthing what was widely described as a “slur” against a referee who had slapped Bryant with a technical foul.
What did Bryant actually say? Well, if you read … Read more
A writer once said that writing comes down to three words: focus, focus, focus. Finding your focus is one of the hardest things to do. When you’ve gathered so much material that you are drowning in your research, it takes … Read more
Bloomberg News is looking to expand from business news into state and local government reporting.
In this week’s career chat, Executive Editor Susan Goldberg, who was hired from The Cleveland Plain Dealer to oversee that expansion, talked with us about … Read more
You’ve probably noticed that one of journalism’s healthiest employment sectors is business reporting. It is not just because those writers and editors have followed the money.
In a Poynter career chat today at 3 p.m. ET, Warren Watson, executive … Read more
Monday afternoon, EveryBlock announced a major shift in focus, from a geographically-based, hyperlocal news site to a “platform for discussion around neighborhood news.”
In describing the changes, founder Adrian Holovaty wrote on the EveryBlock Blog that the site is … Read more
I found myself this week in a strange place as a reader. I read story after story about the horrible disasters in Japan, then found myself riveted to a Rolling Stone cover story about Snooki from MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” … Read more
Please join us today at 3 p.m. for a live chat with Sandra L.M. Csizmar, mobile specialist at the Hartford Courant. Csizmar, who is one of a growing number of journalists with mobile-related newsroom jobs, will talk … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Neil Holdway, treasurer of the American Copy Editors Society and news editor at the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago.
During the chat, I spoke with Holdway about the 2011 ACES convention, … Read more