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 …
Sin City Halloween coverage shows how print brand can work well — and even expand — on the web
November 7, 2009
Halloween in Las Vegas is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be — both the relative normalcy of the haunted holiday for the locals who live here and the overkill craziness that happens on the Strip.
Sarah Feldberg helped lead our team’s coverage of the edgier parts of the haunted holiday in Sin City.
She is our team’s editor for lasvegasweekly.com — Greenspun Interactive’s entertainment site for Las Vegas and the web companion to the Las Vegas Weekly print edition. I’ve been lucky enough to work with Sarah dating back to our team’s time in …
World Series of Poker coverage from the Las Vegas Sun
November 5, 2009
I’ve started and stopped writing probably five or six blogs over the last few months, but just couldn’t find the time or focus to finish them. Lots of reasons for that, but the bottom line is that I sure wish I would have.
I have always prided myself on being a “glass-half-full” kind-of-guy — and any way you slice it, the Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly and Greenspun Interactive crews have created some of the coolest and most interactive new-era local journalism I’ve ever seen over the last few months. Because of that, someone needs to not only be congratulating …
