I’ve been quiet on this space for a while. That hasn’t been out of laziness or lack of something useful to say. Rather, I’ve been silent out of concern over who’s been reading my blog. I have attracted a stalker, you see. It started not quite three months ago, when I was approached by someone…
Today, I had the pleasure of appearing on Betsy Richter’s weekly “Redoing Media” radio show on PDX.fm — alongside Portland, Oregon, political writer T.A. Barnhart. T.A. and I are two of the founders of the Oregon News Incubator group that came out of last fall’s We Make the Media conference, and Betsy invited us onto…
Today is my first day in the Oregon News Incubator’s trial co-working space, per our month-long agreement with The Sentinel. I’ve never before worked in the same physical space as my editor, and it’s nice (and a lot faster) to ask questions and get feedback face-to-face. I am used to working with dogs in the…
In the new year, ONI will be re-tooling our work parties a bit. You’ll still be able to find us around town, to sit with your peers in a public space to work and boost your productivity. But we’re looking at adding a new twist, about once a week: a themed work party. If you’re…
At last night’s Digital Journalism social, I was talking to Michelle Rafter about writing habits and deadlines. She mentioned that her time as a newspaper reporter was probably the best training she’d gotten as a writer. “Because every day at 4:30, you had to have something to show for yourself,” she explained. The staff room…
At last weekend’s We Make the Media conference, some of us started floating the idea of a journalism-specific co-working space — via our Twitter back channel while our breakout group was meeting. In short order, this idea evolved into a “media incubator” concept that now has its own post-conference work group, and has quite a…
Yesterday, approximately 130 journalists and media professionals gathered in downtown Portland to discuss the current, declining state of the media — and what we intend to do about it. I have to say I was excited about the conference. I wanted to be part of a grassroots movement to revitalize and re-envision media moving forward….
