Tag Archives: beats
Posting photos to the web easy, necessary
Posted on 01. Sep, 2011 by Jim Streisel.
I have a new requirement on my staff this year: Everyone who submits a beat report needs to also submit a photo to accompany it. It’s easier to do than you think, especially with the prevalence of cheap digital cameras or, even better, camera phones (see the example in this post). Eye-trac studies support the [...]
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Huntley Adviser Dennis Brown Shares His Staff’s Proposal to Move the Journalism Program Online
Posted on 08. Aug, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
If you’re looking to pitch your school or district on moving online, this is a post that’s going to make you pretty happy. Dennis Brown, veteran adviser at Huntley High School in Huntley, Illinois, is sharing the 9-page proposal he researched and developed to pitch to his school officials. The proposal has a great deal [...]
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Use beat system to generate more online content
Posted on 15. Feb, 2011 by Jim Streisel.
A police officer walks a “beat” so he becomes familiar with a neighborhood and the people in it. Similarly, reporters have “beats” — areas of the school they cover throughout the year on a scheduled basis. The idea is the same; beat reporters become intimately familiar with a particular group, club or organization — I [...]
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Spokesman Staff Revamps Production Schedule to Meet New Needs
Posted on 24. Nov, 2010 by Karen Barrett.
Organizing your staff and your production schedule to be a news organization with multiple ways to publish The latest dilemma for advisers and editors is how to get their staffs to create content for the web. How do we create enough content for both print and web? How do we create content for the web [...]
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Rethinking Your Staff Structure – Powerpoint Presentation
Posted on 23. Oct, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
This is the second of three presentations I gave in Michigan this past week at the MIPA Fall Convention. The piece deals with rethinking your current newsroom when you add the Web into the mix. You can’t just fit the Web into what you’re currently doing. It’s a process that involves everything from how copy [...]
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