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TBD to eliminate most staffers, including yours truly

I don’t really know what my next step will be in the world post-TBD, but I ask that you keep me and my soon-to-be-unemployed colleagues in your thoughts [...]

February 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: TBD | One comment

Transcript: What does a social media editor do?

Here’s the transcript of my journalism jobs chat on Poynter.org Tuesday. There were a lot of great questions about what I do as a social media editor, the workflow, metrics, handling criticism and managing corrections.

We had more than 200 participants and more questions that I could get to in one sitting. If anyone has a question [...]

February 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Industry News & Notes, Presentations | 3 comments

Chatting live with Poynter today

I’ll be chatting with Joe Grimm and the good folks at the Poynter Institute at 3 p.m. ET today about the role of the social media editor in the newsroom. I expect to get questions about what I do and possibly some inquiries into what’s going on at TBD.

If you’ll be around, hop on to the chat [...]

February 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: TBD | Leave a comment

First try at using Xtranormal for news at TBD

In an experiment, I tried Xtranormal’s animation tools to build a cartoon re-enactment of an FBI indictment transcript for TBD. [...]

February 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: My Work, TBD | 6 comments

TBD’s future is TBD, but then again, it always has been

On Feb. 9, it was announced that the management of TBD would be taken over by WJLA. This led to a Washington Post story declaring the site dead, lots of insistence we had failed and a tremendous outpouring of support from fans and friends. [...]

February 12th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: TBD, Work Stuff & Projects | 7 comments