"Welcome aboard, kid. We just
fired your colleague."
On my first day as a reporter, I noticed the photographer was gone. So was 10 percent of the newsroom at a neighboring newspaper, my editor told me.
- Reporting
- Storytelling
- Copy editing
- AP Style
- Government
- Business
- Community
- English or Norwegian
"It's called a 'podcast,'" I told him.
I walked up to my coworker and said "how would you like to make a cooking-show?" Three weeks later we were standing in his kitchen with my old camcorder.
- Video news reports
- Promotional videos
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Soundbooth
- Audacity
- Picasa, Flickr
- Polls, Maps, Links
Not a single blog in sight.
This just wouldn't do.
Six months after coming up with the idea, my friend Julie and I hosted the launch party for Parkland's first hyperlocal news blog.
- Apache webserver
- HTML / CSS
- PHP / MySQL
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Google Sites / Blogger
The screen faded to black.
"We're out," I said.
Gathered under the studio spotlights, eight staff and I congratulated each other on our last newscast together. It had been the best season in 10 years, our professor said.
- Managing reporters
- Training for TV and Web
- Budgetting and ordering
- Conflict resolution
- News Director
- Online Editor
- Teaching Assistant
