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A conversation among journalists, presented by the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association
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About Me
- Jim Killam
- I'm the adviser for the Northern Star, the daily student newspaper at Northern Illinois University. I also teach journalism classes in the NIU department of communication, and am a free-lance writer/editor/photographer.
4 comments:
I haven't tried anything new yet, unless you count leaving this comment on a blog site, which would be new for me.
But I did enjoy your presentation. It provided useful how to information about blogs, while leading an insightful discussion of the who to and why to aspects. I am sure it will help steer my colleagues at Pioneer Press as we jump into the whole blog sphere.
Someone asked me at the workshop what model of Canon video camera we're using. It's an Elura 100 - fairly similar in price and functions to the Panasonic model Denise showed. It does have a mic input.
I would stress, as Denise did, that you also will NEED a tripod.
We are working on implementing a few ideas to our website.
The video was interesting, and it is something we would like to do, but the fact remains we have a small staff and we do not have the time or manpower to get to that point yet.
The challenge we face being a weekly, is our website hits peak on Thursday, Friday and Monday (the paper issue comes out on Thursdays), and really drop off the rest of the week, with Sunday being the worst. We want people to keep coming to the site regardless, and the biggest thing I got out of the workshop was the concept of making the website a destination in and of itself.
Without giving too much away, THAT is exactly what we are going to do.
At my weekly, we have heretofor talked about blogs in the sense of having staff do blogs, and will probably still proceed somewhat in that direction. But i thought your suggestion that it should be the readers mostly doing the blogs is definitely something to chew on.
I also liked the idea of using a blog for daily updates of developing stories. As a weekly, i think that is something that would breathe freshness onto our site.
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