Bottoming Out: A look back at our multimedia journalism package on gambling addiction
July 27, 2010
For several months — and for several reasons — I quit speaking at conferences, universities, etc… Since I’ve gradually started to agree to speak again, I’ve noticed that one of the Sun’s projects from the last year that gets a ton of attention and even more questions is our big gambling project from November.
I only thought to mention this because I’ve never really posted anything about the project — and now is a good time to do so. On Monday, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors named “Bottoming Out” as the “best multimedia storytelling …
Snapshot from the Las Vegas Sun’s multimedia newsroom
July 23, 2010
I’m often blown away by how much talent there is at the Las Vegas Sun, especially in regards to those who practice multimedia journalism.
The list of amazing (and basically “text”) journalists who have not only embraced our newspaper’s mission, but excelled at it, goes on and on. Someday soon, I definitely need to write something about how each of these folks has really made what the Sun does so interesting and special.
But the real reason I wanted to post something today was because there were a couple of really fantastic examples Thursday that show how the Sun’s newsroom …
A whole lot of thoughts on a whole lot of things
June 18, 2010
Last week I got to speak at one of the most interesting media conferences I’ve ever been to: the Radio Ink Convergence conference, held on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. The speakers were great and I took a ton of notes.
Here is a link to the story written about my presentation at the conference.
Before the conference, I was interviewed by Radio Ink magazine as a precede to the conference. It was different because it was an audio interview that was transcribed. I say that it was different because when I’m interviewed now, it seems like it’s usually …
Tracking traffic with balls
May 6, 2010
Whenever groups visit the Greenspun Newsroom or whenever we give a presentation about our operation, especially to other media folks, one of the things that fascinates people is what we call the “wall of balls.”
It’s really nothing more than a video monitor that shows live traffic to LasVegasSun.com. It looks like this:
The system was basically implemented and tweaked by one of our team’s programmers, Tim Thiele.
We have one of these monitors at three different locations in our newsroom.
It basically works like this: A ball falling from the top left to right represents a request to our …
The Las Vegas Sun on an iPad and my thoughts on Apple’s latest little fruit
April 21, 2010
Not that it is a huge surprise to anyone, but earlier this month I was up-and-at-em first thing on the Saturday morning when iPads were available for sale.
It’s not much different from the other photos from that day, but here’s what the scene looked like at the Apple store at Las Vegas’ Town Square:
(Sidenote in regards to the above picture: I’ve noticed people often are surprised when Las Vegas has something that all other big cities have … like an Apple store. It sometimes feels like they think we only have mega-resorts and slot machines, forgetting that nearly 2 …
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