Are you a nerd and, if so, would you like to work at a kick-ass news organization?
December 24, 2008
It looks like 2009 will be a game-changing year for local news organizations around the nation.
The Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Interactive are going into the new year with our eyes wide open, and — as one of the most innovative publishers I ever worked for used to say — a plan to drive with our brights on.
Big things are in the works here in Las Vegas and we’re looking for folks who would like to be a part of what we’re doing.
We will be posting several jobs over the next few months — some for full-time new-media journalists and …
The Five Ps
November 24, 2008
When it comes to content that works really well on the Internet, or at least that drives a lot of pageviews, I’ve always thought it comes down to the Five Ps:
* Passions — People go to the web to find out more about the things they love. Whether they love to travel, or love to shop, or love shoes, or love the Kansas Jayhawks, or love gadgets, or whatever, the Internet is awesome at helping you find out almost everything you could want to know about your favorite things.
* Practical — Movie showtimes. What restaurants are open right now? Which …
More wisdom from William Allen White
November 3, 2008
My friends, colleagues, anyone who has ever visited my office at either Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive or at Greenspun Interactive, and those who have heard me speak at conferences, and even casual acquaintances, usually figure out that I love William Allen White.
I probably mention his name and his work in way too many of the conversations I have about journalism. But I can’t help it because I think we still can learn from him.
White was the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Emporia Gazette. He was not only an amazingly in-touch journalist, he was a visionary who fully grasped the many different …
Newspaper-produced video: quality vs. quantity?
October 12, 2008
A couple of weeks ago as I was visiting several of the news-industry websites that I wanted to catch up on, I saw that Mindy McAdams had posted an entry about Colin Mulvany’s great post on “quality versus quantity” in newspaper video.
Mulvaney’s blog on this subject is ass-kicking good. I also thought some of the responses to it were excellent (while others were delusional), and I especially liked his list of 10 questions he feels should be asked in regard to all of this.
I liked the post so much that I wrote a note to our staff at …
All In — the new sports show from the Las Vegas Sun
September 26, 2008
One of the Las Vegas Sun’s goals is to build new-media content that focuses on people’s passions — thereby creating big traffic, thereby creating the perfect environment for Chris Jennewein’s team to build a successful business that supports the journalism.
BTW — Chris is still hiring if you’d like to join our team on the advertising side.
Anyway, as we analyze traffic trends on lasvegassun.com, it hasn’t taken us long to figure out that local sports content — specifically things related to UNLV basketball and (somewhat surprisingly) Rebels football, Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed-martial arts, boxing, World Series of Poker and …
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