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- The Telegraph of Nashua, NH
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- 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.
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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.
At The Telegraph in Nashua,… Continue
Posted on March 15th, 2008 at 8:47pm —
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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
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
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?