So there’s a big ice storm on the way, apparently. Robert Pore, our fabulous ag reporter, is monitoring the situation closely and posting updates on the front page of the Independent website. Be sure to watch that space. From the looks of it, the ice/sleet will hit after midnight tonight and last most of the [...]
I know I’ve mentioned before that The Independent is online with Twitter and you can see our updates in the Twitter box to the right and down a bit. And I’ve discussed what Twitter is in a previous post. But did you know you can use Twitter to get Independent updates on your cell phone?
I’ve [...]
As you can imagine, Thanksgiving weekend was pretty news-heavy, at least in the Nebraska sports world. A whipping by Colorado on Friday followed by the sacking of head coach Bill Callahan made it a busy time to be a sports writer.
Couple that with the usual assortment of shopping frenzy stories and a weird outbreak of [...]
As I write this, Nebraska is back and forthing with Colorado and there’s a lot of teeth gnashing going on in the newsroom. It’s a skeleton crew here today with the majority of folk either off taking advantage of Black Friday or spending time with their families.
I’m hoping the game will be over soon and [...]
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and all through the newsroom, all the creatures were stirring…
Because the bosses are cooking breakfast for all of us. It smells delish and I have to say that Newslink may be a wee bit late getting online because I wouldn’t want to get any syrup or butter on the equipment [...]
Thanksgiving always mean crazybusy time here at The Independent. Ad reps are moving doubletime getting ads, proofs, and content to the graphic artists; circulation is preparing to send out thousands of extra copies of the paper which means they have to bring in employee’s kids and other volunteers to rolld and bag them all late [...]
And that means busy. Our annual Santa’s Helper campaign kicked off today. Good deals going there if you can find the Santa pic. We’re on day three of the Twelve Days of Christmas so check that out as well.
Today’s also the last day for our Multimedia guru, Anthony May. We’re going to miss him around [...]
W00t! Corbin has blogged in his shiny new space called Cinemuck. Corbin is one of our fine Copy Editors and a lover of all things cinematic. He also works for the Mall 7 theater at the Conestoga so he’s right in there when it comes to knowing what’s the what at the movies. Head over [...]
The Independent has hooked up with social site Twitter. We’ll be using it to post news updates, make announcements or point out special things going on with the paper, so if you happen to Twitter, why not follow us?
It is beastly hot in the newsroom. Apparently the heat has been cranked despite the fairly warm weather we’ve been having. The temp is not helped by the fact the some sort of generator broke in the server room so we’re using an industrial fan to keep it cool in there – which pushes all [...]