Covering high-school recruiting. On a Sunday afternoon. Please meet Ray Brewer.
January 11, 2010
I’m a huge fan of Las Vegas Sun preps writer Ray Brewer and I love the way Brewer leads our coverage of high school sports in this valley. Plus, his enthusiasm and drive are contagious.
Other than Brewer, what also makes the Sun’s high-school sports coverage so unique is that it is online-only. As I’ve written numerous times before, because of the JOA in Las Vegas, our print edition only has eight pages each day — with no daily sports or entertainment content, except on rare occasions.
Before the fall sports season began, I posted a blog about our …
Real-time news in Las Vegas: The Federal Courthouse shooting
January 8, 2010
Sorry about the lack of posts lately.
Any way you slice it, there have been lots of things going on … with our company, with the holidays, and lots of huge events and big breaking news here in Las Vegas. I’m eventually going to try to write about all of those things.
But for today, I want to quickly focus on how our week began at the Las Vegas Sun.
On Monday morning, a gunman opened fire at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse. I found out about this story as I was getting ready to head in …
Pacquiao-Cotto fight: Twitter, live blogs, multimedia and general wiliness as a part of beat coverage
November 17, 2009
For a kid who grew up in Kansas with beef, basketball and Bob Dole, things like boxing and UFC are a little out there for me. But I have to admit that I enjoy them. And it’s obvious that a whole lot of lasvegassun.com readers love them, as well.
As I have written about before, UFC seems very much like Las Vegas’ major-league sports franchise to me.
And though its relationship is different with the city, boxing absolutely has the same vibe to it.
I know that with just about 18 months under my belt I’m very much a newbie to …
Using evergreen databases and guides with weekly narrative content
November 13, 2009
Our team has always been known for building lots and lots of databases. Or at least we get asked about them a lot.
Though we’re probably best known for our sports databases, some of my favorites from the past have been things like our restaurant health-inspection reports and state legislature voting records from our time at The Topeka Capital-Journal in the early part of this decade.
Don’t try to find those DBs — they’re long gone from cjonline.com. 
I’ve long said that five things really push traffic on the web: content that people are passionate about, practical information, playful/fun things, personal …
How a ‘traditional print journalist’ can become a great new-media journalist and still not know Flash or how to edit video
November 9, 2009
When I originally started writing this blog entry, I typed “U2 comes to the desert: Covering a mega-concert via new media” as the headline in the WordPress title box. And that’s what this post was going to be about — how John Katsilometes covered U2’s recent concert in Las Vegas.
To say I was impressed with how Johnny Kats covered it is a huge understatement. As I have written before, this guy impresses me a whole lot of the time, and I literally think he represents a major facet of how local journalism can/will survive.
But as I looked at …
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