Posted by The Independent on April 7th, 2008 in Newsroom, Video
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on March 27th, 2008 in Newsroom
Posted by The Independent on March 13th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom, Video
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on March 7th, 2008 in Newsroom
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. [...]
Posted by The Independent on February 12th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on February 5th, 2008 in Newsroom, Video
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on January 28th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on January 7th, 2008 in General News, Newsroom
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
Posted by The Independent on December 17th, 2007 in Newsroom, Video
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on December 10th, 2007 in Newsroom, Website
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 [...]