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Check out Twitter updates from the DNC
Former Independent Intern, Cassie Fleming, will be sending updates direct from the Democratic National Convention. Follow her updates below, or follow her on Twitter!
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New Twitterers!
Everyone in the newsroom, I’m sure, is tired of me extolling the virtues of Twitter. I won’t shutup about it. I can’t shutup about it. @theindependent’s follower list keeps growing and it shows us that our readers want our awesome local content delivered to them in many different ways. My job is to do just [...]
New GI Blogger
Welcome to the Grand Island Blogger Network, Jack Sheard!
Jack is the Presentation Editor here at The Independent and beginning June 9th, he is going to begin training to run a half-marathon in August. Jack hasn’t done any serious running since 1998, according to his first entry, but on June 2nd, the paper will begin a [...]
Scenes from the Morgue
I kinda love how creepily misleading the title of The Independent’s latest blogger’s blog is. “Scenes from the Morgue” is aptly titled in so many ways.
First: it’s creepy and vaguely disturbing in a morbid kind of way. You read that title and think, “Oh man. I’m not clicking on that.” Images of dissected bodies, aniseptic [...]
Pets
In all the hoopla surrounding our site redesign, I completely forgot to point out a new feature we have in our classifieds section – PETS! What’s that you say? Pets aren’t new. What are you talking about?
We’ve partnered with a company called Gadzoo in order to bring you, dear readers, a feature-rich section full of [...]
Pleased to announce
We have more blogs!
Our resident columnist, George Ayoub, is trying his hand at a video blog. It’s called A Shoe on the Freeway and it should be a lot of fun to keep up with, so add it to your favorite feedreader! We’re not sure how often he will post a new video for your [...]
Tv and Music
We have two more new blogs to add to our site – TV Babble and Touring with Tonya!
Ok so TV Babble is me, but I’ve been wanting to do a TV blog for a long time and this seemed like the perfect time to get it going Mine’s just getting off the ground, [...]
New Bloggers!
The Independent has been very lucky to have award-winning, fantastic photographers on our staff. They are Barrett Stinson, Scott Kingsley and Lane Hickenbottom. Now, two of our photogs, Barrett and Scott*, have started a blog that will highlight their work. Extra photos taken while out on assignment will be included as well as anything these [...]
Busy day
There’s a lot going on inside the newsroom today. During the morning budget meeting where we discuss upcoming stories and their various statuses, it came over the scanner that Senior High had to evacuate students due to an electrical fire in an elevator. Off went our esteemed photographer, Barrett to try and catch a good [...]