Loading ...Be sure to watch the paper this weekend and over New Year’s. We’ll be including each reporter’s top 10 stories for 2007 as well as the top 10 national and state stories. new Year’s eve we will announce The Independent’s Woman of the Year and Man of the Year will be announced on New Year’s [...]
This post is a little outside the newsroom-ish but I wanted to take a minute and send some more attention to Mark Fhuere’s awesome Christmas lights display.
Last year, video of the Wizards in Winter lights display went viral and served as the inspiration for Mark’s elaborate show.
From The Independent article:
“..three yards, 20,000 lights, a 12-foot [...]
The annual Christmas shindig gets underway in about an hour. A long row of tables have been set up in the middle of the newsroom which will soon be laden with lots of food. Should be fun! Employees dig in, hang out and generally just enjoy a bit of downtime with each other before getting [...]
Here’s a few things we’ve got in the works as he wind down 2007 and gear up for 2008.
We have a new Simply Cooking recipe up this week: Christmas Rice. I know what you’re thinking. Rice? Christmas? Weird! But watch the video with the fabulous Mitzi Stinson and judge for yourself. It looks yummy to [...]
There’s been a lot of news around here lately. Some good, some break-your-heart horrible. It’s hard to know how to talk about a newsroom’s reaction and plans for covering events like the shootings in Omaha without sounding like I don’t care about what happened in Omaha. But as a newspaper, we must make plans for [...]
Well we had a meltdown with the website Monday night. I won’t bore with the details but the gist of it is the software we use to publish the site was throwing major errors and databases were corrupted and one midnight phone call later I told the copy desk to leave it and I’d see [...]