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Job Title: Editor

News Organization: The Telegraph of Nashua, NH

Bio: I'm now in my 19th year here at The Telegraph, having worn a number of hats during that time: business editor, city editor, managing editor, editor and -- since September of last year -- editorial page editor. Up to this point, online efforts have been limited to writing a blog, coordinating our Reader Advisory Network (e-mail) and playing a role in our recent editorial board interviews with 12 of the original 16 presidential candidates that were conducted in the TV studios of our local high school. I'm here hoping to pick up some tips/skills that would be applicable to my relatively new position.

Web site: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com

Blog: http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com/the_editors_blog

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Dawn of Sunshine Week

While Sunshine Week doesn't officially begin for another 15 minutes or so, a quick Google search suggests news organizations across the country are gearing up for an active week both in print and online. As the creator -- there's a term I never thought I would get to use in this business -- of the Sunshine Week group on WJ, I just wanted to encourage participants to share some of the things they have planned for the week.

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Posted on March 15, 2008 at 11:47pm —

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At 5:33pm on March 26, 2008, Andrew Nelson said…: OK. This is what I don't get about these networking sites. They begin with a flourish -tada!-and then I don't see much networking going on. For instance, i post a question about audio and slide shows. Out of 54 folks in the group, none respond. What's up with that. Or maybe I am just using this tool poorly. What do you use it for? (I'm posing the same Q to Ernesto.) Or is the idea that I can easily find you and Ernesto to pose questions to? --Curious in Atlanta

At 11:28am on March 17, 2008, Matt Wickenheiser said…: Hey Nick! Yeah, alive and largely hidden in Maine! Plugging away as a biz reporter, covering manufacturing, mostly which is fun up here - Naval shipbuilders, semiconductor makers, paper mills - all the good stuff....!

Corene's well - still a stay-at-home mom. We've got 2 boys, Noah, 6 and Jonas, 3 - fun, and a hand full, too.

This whole Wired Journalists idea seems pretty interesting - I haven't done as much webwork as I'd like to have, and this may be a good place to start figuring things out ...

Hope all's well - matt

At 1:27pm on March 12, 2008, Matt McSorley said…: Hi Nick -- Feel free to question why the voters of Litchfield turned down a road repair article that was to be fully paid by the state. If one had troubled himself/herself to read the proposal start to finish, it would have been clear who was going to pay the freight. Maybe the adults could benefit from building that new elementary school more than the kids!

At 6:58pm on March 10, 2008, Peg McNichol said…: At 8:50pm on March 9th, 2008, Peg McNichol said…
Hi Nick -- Thank the Poynter folks for getting me to this site. It was in one of their newsy e-mails.

I cover city (and sometimes county) government in Southeast Missouri and routinely deal with Sunshine issues. Monday's "Lost on Main Street" column alerts readers to the upcoming Sunshine Week and I'm blogging on the same issue.

Here is a quote I'm using at a theme for my column Monday — can you tell me (without Googling) who said:

"Information — or transparency — is the enemy of corruption. Corruption feeds and breeds from secrecy and ignorance. It cannot thrive under the light spread by an open, informed society."

We have a slew of municipal elections coming up on April. 8 -- so many races our coverage is being divvied up among reporters. I plan to ask each of the candidates I profile about open government as well as whether they have attended any of our state attorney general's Sunshine Law workshops.

The class is given every other year (next one in Jan. 2009) and I know of at least one city in my coverage area that has never trained its officials. This could explain why they hang up on me all the time :) , not to mention the recent closed meeting and failed vote to impeach the mayor. I did not make that up, either.

Mostly I came here to look for ideas, to get a journalistic kickstart.

One thing we've done already here is videotaped meetings and broadcast excerpts on our Web site -- only one muncipality airs the city council meeting on a local cable access station.

This site is a great idea. Thanks for doing it!

Peg

At 7:57pm on March 7, 2008, Michele McLellan said…: Hi Nick. Great to hear from you. Hope things are warming up in Nashua. I would like to chat sometime about how your newsroom is doing, aftermath of LN project. I am going to be starting a blog in April on leadership and newsroom culture for the Knight Digital Media Center.

At 3:27pm on March 5, 2008, Matt McSorley said…: I'm glad to have been a positive impact on Melanie! Please give her my regards from one BU Terrier to another. It's funny you should bring that up just now. Earlier this week I joked with my daughter Caroline, age 4, about going to work with me. Yesterday she held me to it. I figured she'd get bored after an hour and go home. She stayed until 8 p.m. and spent her night seated at my desk scribbling on a news budget and chatted with the entire newsroom -- including the NE Cable News tv reporter, who had Caroline sit in the TV chair so she could see herself on the screen. She so charmed everyone that she got a round of applause when she went home. That's one more round of applause than I've ever had!
We had a second round of buyouts last week at the UL. Three in the newsroom -- the most prominent being John Clayton -- took it. The biggest change in my life is that there's a little less competition for vacation time. There was the possibility of being laid off last spring, but that was averted and with these buyouts it probably means a little extra breathing room for lower-seniority staffers.
How's the new gig treating you?

At 3:03pm on March 5, 2008, Matt McSorley said…: Hi Nick. Thanks for the invite. I've heard from you and Sherm through this Web site. Always nice to be remembered.

At 11:55pm on February 10, 2008, Andrew Nelson said…: Hi Nick! I see a few other friendly faces here. My goal here is to pick up some tips about multimedia that I can bring to the weekly here in ATL. Be well. I cannot believe you rooted for the Giants.