| A newspaper journalist converts and converges after two years on the copy desk
Welcome. I’m an online producer at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. The purpose of this blog is twofold.
- To record the experience of learning to produce multimedia and other online journalistic content for a daily newspaper website.
- To leave a trail of breadcrumbs for anybody else thinking of or already going down the same path.
How I got here
I earned a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2006. During my final semester, I was completing a research project while working at the Spokesman-Review. I guess I was doing well, because they offered me a job.
Prior to that, I’d worked on the copy desk at the Stockton (Calif.) Record and as a night ACE, assistant news editor, designer, copy editor and reporter at the Columbia Missourian. Granted, the Missourian is a faculty-led laboratory paper at the J School, and I did all of that in the span of about 18 months. But who’s counting.
I’ve taught English in Prague and slung groceries in Portland, where I earned my bachelor’s degree in English from Lewis & Clark College. For the first 18 years of my life, I lived in the greater Seattle area.
Other places you’ll find me
Finally, a disclaimer
Although this blog may link to content at spokesmanreview.com, this site is completely independent of that product, and the opinions belong to me.
Hi Andrew — I recently read about a paper you published in Summer 2007 about the results of an online survey of ACE members, through the Changing Newsroom wordpress blog. I was wondering if it was available online, or if you could send me a copy either for my own reading or posting in the “Managing Journalists” topic on J-Source. Thanks in advance…
Posted by Heather McCall on May 7th, 2008.
Andrew-
Looking good. Will be tuning in and paying attention. Does Spokane own you?!
JG
Posted by Jake on May 9th, 2008.
Jake. good to hear from you, and happy to have you stumble on my little sandbox. Spokane is just sort of leasing me right now.
Posted by Zahler on May 9th, 2008.
Andrew
Saw your use of Google Maps API at the interactive map for Spokane River.
Assuming you put it together. Been using Google Earth for quite a while for web advocacy. if you ever want to chat give me a shout.
Tech page of SR did a bio on a few of us a while back - modeling Spokane in 3D for Google Earth.
For a look at sample of my kml - check out this Aquifer Tour in Google Earth (URL)
http://earth.google.com/ig/directory?pid=earth&synd=earth&num=24&url=http://maps.google.com/maps/gx%3Foe%3Dutf-8%26output%3Dghapi%26q%3Dhttp://rhall76.googlepages.com/AquiferGEGalleryNL.kml%26thumbnail%3Dhttp://wilbur.csbs.ewu.edu/Links/Portfolios/rhall/rhimages/aq-thumbnail.png%26screenshot%3Dhttp://wilbur.csbs.ewu.edu/Links/Portfolios/rhall/rhimages/aq-screenshot.png&output=html
Thanks for your time and attention.
Ron Hall
Posted by Ron Hall on July 14th, 2008.