For the news junkies: Former Spokesman-Review online publisher Ken Sands (hi!), now executive editor for innovation at Congressional Quarterly, wrote an interesting piece on newspaper "data delivery editors." Read the article at Poynter Institute's E-media Tidbits. The piece highlights new methods of organizing data, from…
Editor Steve Smith is blogathonning with Dave F. Oliveria, and senior editor Carla Savalli is out reassuring young journalists that there is a future to this news industry? "Guy with minivan endorses Modest Mouse"Assistant city editor Dan Hansen took a listen to some Modest Mouse…
"I've never heard of Modest Mouse - Who the hell is Modest Mouse?" asked editor Steve Smith at this morning's meeting.It's a modern band, and it's coming up in 7's cover story.
So because Cabela's has a media day today, that brought up questions about story placement for tomorrow's paper. Assistant city editor Dan Hansen is taking the tour, collecting audio and writing a story. Photographer Liz Kishimoto is shooting photos. The store is open for the…
At our Oct 12 morning meeting, photo director Larry Reisnouer said one of his reporters was asked to leave the garbage dump because of liability issues. If the photographer was not there to dump trash, he or she could not stick around. After putting a…
In a Huckleberries post by Idaho bureau blogger Dave F. Oliveria is a press release that names a suicide victim at North Idaho College. The Spokesman-Review has a policy of naming suicide victims and rape victims, and not covering suicides as news events unless the…
This fellow was seen at a harvest festival. But it wasn't a banana harvest festival. Maybe he's supposed to be a squash, a copy desk wizard said. Another said maybe the apple suit didn't fit in the car. The full photo runs in the paper…
Stephen Colbert in video clip: "I shall seek the office of the president of the United States"
Spokesman-Review columnist Doug Clark has a very distinctive method of chugging mints straight from the container, the kind with the flip top like a Zippo lighter. Then he offers some. Well, not if you've put lip germs on it, you big government nerd. This was…
Weird noon meeting. It was a 4:30 meeting, except at noon. Huh.But there are exciting things coming. McClatchy newspapers has picked up excerpts of an NBC Matt Lauer interview with Larry Craig, which airs Tuesday night prime time. Maybe Craig will demonstrate, in a suit…
Sometimes journalists forget that there are some things the public doesn't know about newsroom operations, business editor Alison Boggs said. The staff of the Cedar Post, a high school newspaper in Sandpoint, Idaho, came to visit this morning. Here are some of the questions from…
What's jarworthy nowadays is different from what used to be jarworthy. It's "the swear jar," but nowadays it seems like there's a lot more censoring in the name of charity. Which is why senior editor Carla Savalli, strong opponent of weather stories, did not say…
The S-R has officially launched a new blog, The Falls with your host Shawn Vestal. It's hard to know how readership and participation will grow as we are "feeling our way through new platforms," one of the editors said. They noted that when blogs such…
Amnesty week is over, and city editor Addy Hatch made the first jarworthy comment today. Kudos• Faith Ranks No. 1, about the WSU football player observing Ramadan. • Yodeling cowboy (guy from the Yahoo! commercial), and a second video, Yodeling lesson from yodeling cowboy• So…
• Video by Colin Mulvany from vet clinic, Union Gospel Mission• National bulldog show and competition. In other business, there's news brewing about the food bank taking donations of untouched food from events and such, and more on the needle exchange.
Coming up, a story about the related hazards for homeless shelters taking in people who have service animals. Word is some of them have doctors' (psychiatrists?) notes that they need service animals, and at least one case involves a "service fish." Also check out the…
Folks could safely talk about... weather? It's not a long enough summer, they said, then again it could be a whole lot worse, it could be Memphis at 112 degrees and 112% humidity.Memphis would be a "good place to grow marijuana," said reporter Kevin Graman.…
See that big black thing at the bottom with a Brazilian model in it? Don't get any ideas. And, er, maybe not Brazilian. It's an advertisement for Dodson's (the jewelers).Editors hear that Dodson's has a print advertising contract that runs for 12 weeks. but at…
The advertisement on page A8 will do it for ya, folks marveled. And there is no swear jar on the table this morning. Main street or avenue?Managing editor Gary Graham received a call from someone who said Spokane has no "Main Street." The caller said…
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