editor on the verge

Online musings from the newsroom and beyond . . . by Yoni Greenbaum

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Your newsroom could learn something from TMZ… No, really

February 2nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Do your story meetings look like TMZ‘s? If not, maybe they should? In most newsrooms, story meetings are near clandestine events, with participants marching, piles of paper in hand, to a conference room (or office) only to emerge anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and a half later looking haggard and, in some cases, […]

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Tags: Best Practices · Editors · Industry · Innovation · Meetings

A different way of approaching meeting coverage – UPDATED

January 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Are there any newspaper reporters using Twitter to cover council meetings? I know that we’ve seen examples of sporting events being covered via Twitter, but I don’t recall anyone saying that they are using it to report on municipal types of events. I’m sure there are those of you who are already shaking your heads […]

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