Loading ...Here it is, a new year and new changes will be happening to us in the coming year as we transition to our new company. I just want to give fair warning that there could be some bumps in the road as we learn new tools and rebuild our website using those tools.
One of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]