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At 1:40pm on October 28, 2009, Joshua M. Rosenau said…: I'm not sure what you are looking for, but a cool general purpose site is tumblr.com. Its easy and it looks good.

At 11:50am on May 20, 2009, Richard Goodman said…: Hi,
I came across your blog post/response about my essay "In Search of the Exact Word" in the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, and I really want to thank you for those nice words. Richard Goodman

At 7:27pm on March 9, 2008, Dave Brooks said…: Here's how I changed jobs: I had been in the same job (bureau chief in an outlying area) for 10 years and was burned out. I said I needed a change but I don't want any existing jobs at the paper - I've done most of them over my 21 years here - so what can we work out? Six months later, I have a new special projects post that fits into the mantra of "we need to do more online but we're not sure what it is". Kudos to the Telegraph for being flexible.

So far it's great. I am re-energized, to use a buzzword.
In particular, for somebody my age, it's fun learning new stuff every day.

At 2:29pm on March 8, 2008, Susan Crowell said…: Anyone who's interested in narrative should be great with multimedia. It is, after all, storytelling.

For some reason, you Web site link didn't work. Do you have examples of your writing online?

At 2:13pm on January 29, 2008, Amy Berkowitz said…: Hey Meghan how's it goin? Matt got me to join this have no clue what I'm doing so it's all his fault.

At 11:27am on January 24, 2008, matt king said…: Alright - a little buy-in finally

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Job Title: Reporter

News Organization: The Times Herald-Record

Bio: I am a reporter for the Times Herald-Record in upstate New York. My previous experience includes daily and weekly newspapers in Colorado, and as an editor for several .coms. As a writer, I'm interested in narrative. As a multimedia journalist, I'm interested in how we can use the web to tell more compelling stories. I also enjoy photography, although I'm not out to take any of our staffers' jobs anytime soon

Web site: http://smegmurf.googlepages.com

Meghan E. Murphy's Blog

The long and the short of the net

There's a discussion going on right now at Gangrey.com about whether people will actually read long stories online. Seems, in standard newsroom logic, some editors have decided that what works in print must work on the web. You know, "quick hit" stories and "News in Five" pages that made papers like USA Today take off. But, of course, this really irks us narrative journalism-types who want to write long-impassioned stories about the human condition. So, at… Continue

Posted on March 10, 2008 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

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