Live from Inside the Newsroom!
Watch Independent employees go about their day of gathering the news. (Apparently, this live stream works best with IE.) (We are testing live streaming video, so enjoy this while you can )
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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 [...]
Newslink
Last Friday we posted our last Newslink. We’re looking for new ways to enhance the news and we would love to hear from you. After all, this whole news thing is for you. So you tell us how you’d like us to deliver it to you. An idea we’re working on is to create a [...]
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 [...]
Checking In
It’s been a little crazybusy here at the Independent, at least for me, which might explain my lack of updates. Rest assured I have not forgotten this blog Today, glitches aside, we hope to see a lot of folks in our live chat with George Ayoub as he sits courtside at today’s GICC vs. Ravenna [...]
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 [...]
Newslink change
Starting tomorrow (02/06/08) Newslink will be afternoons-only. Eventually Newslink will evolve into a news package style and we will no longer have anchors for the cast. You will be able to watch a rotating list of top video stories at your leisure. But it will take time and planning to get us to that point [...]
Independent bloggers
Managing editor and awesome cartoonist Bill Dunn has updated his blog with his latest editorial cartoons. Check them out! And Independent copy editor, Corbin Crable is getting the hang of this blogging thang and has updated his Cinemuck blog with his review of Oscar-nominated film “Juno” as well as a little commentary about actor Heath [...]
Website status – UPDATE
The problem has been solved. It was a hung process on the server causing all this angst. Thanks for everyone’s patience while we fixed it. Today’s stories have been loaded now and hopefully we won’t have this issue tonight