Zombie Journalism

TBD.com came out of the gates with a few community engagement experiments you might find helpful at your own news orgs.

I had my first-ever TV appearance this morning on News Talk, a program produced by News Channel 8 (soon to be TBD’s TV side). I was brought on to talk about the rise of Facebook in the wake of its 500 millionth user signing up this week.
I couldn’t get the video up on a server [...]

For months now, I have been excitedly following the developing news of Allbritton’s local news site. As the parent company of Politico, many online types have hopes this as-yet-unnamed project can revitalize online news – and maybe give the Washington Post a run for their money.
I’m proud to say that as of today, I’m going [...]

The furlough – a company cost-cutting measure previously associated with the manufacturing sector – now embraced by those of us working in paragraph factories around the nation.
In the last year, my husband and I have had three separate weeklong furloughs (perhaps it wasn’t so wise to marry a journalist after all). These furloughs are, we’re [...]

When it comes to weather coverage, sometimes all we need to do is give readers the latest information. We at Cincinnati.Com used Wordpress to get the weather updates out in a simple, quick way during this month’s snow storms.

With all of this snow, it’s been a newsy time here in Cincinnati. Needless to say, I’ve been otherwise occupied with my “day job” to be very good at this venture by the time I get home at night.
I have a few things in the works, I swear, just bear with me.

So I’ve been going through something of a journalistic identity crisis lately that’s put me in a real malaise about the industry at large and my own career. So if you’ll let me get a little personal for a post, I could use some help crafting a useful new job that could help my newsroom [...]

Yes, it’s been quiet around these parts.
I’ve been temporarily sidelined by local elections and pneumonia, neither of which I can seem to put behind me even though they should be done by now.
I have lots in store, though, so don’t wander off. Fun stuff to come on Google Wave, the role of a social media [...]

Probably my favorite project, Seen and Heard was a popular blog on local people-watching on JSOnline from 2005 to 2007. In addition to my usual work duties, I wrote this first person narrative blog as a labor of love. Even though the JS site did not yet have blog technology that could support commenting, I [...]

I was incredibly lucky to have spent a few years working at WKSU-FM, an excellent Northeast Ohio NPR station, for my graduate school fellowship. Each year WKU did a large-scale news series based around a topic in the news. During that time period, I got the chance to work with some of the best reporters [...]