Loading ...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. [...]
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 [...]
This week has been a bit of a battle in trying to ensure the website is loaded each night. The machine we use to do this keep corrupting the database and crashing. Since the copy desk takes care of loading the site, they don’t know how to fix that sort of thing and so it [...]
It’s been a slow news day, at least locally. Fortunately, we have nothing like the Britney Spears trainwreck escapades to keep the place jumping. Instead we have local news for you know, the locals. Our farm community is probably more interested in predictions for the ag market this year than whether Ms. Spears showed up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]