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Shannon Mullen's Discussions
Priorities
Replied Jan. 28, 2008
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- Organization
- Asbury Park (N.J.) Press
- Title
- Staff writer
- Location
- Neptune, NJ
- About Me
- My journalism career may have peaked at age 22 as editor of The Chronicle, but I've tried to make a decent show of it these past 21 years as a reporter for a New Jersey daily. I live at the Jersey Shore with my wife and three daughters and teach journalism part-time at Rutgers University. I am pretty sure that some of my overdue utility bills and old term papers will surface in the Chronicle office when it's vacated. These I hereby donate to the University archives.
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- http://www.app.com
- Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).
- As a decidedly uni-media journalist who is beginning to come to terms with multi-media platforms, I definitely feel The Chronicle newsroom should be structured with video capabilities in mind. My own paper has made modest progress in this area of late, but one of our sister papers in the Gannett chain, The Journal News of NY's lower Hudson Valley (www.lohud.com) is way ahead of the curve, having teamed with a local cable TV news outlet to produce an online newscast and other features that are generating significant Web traffic, if not huge profits. LoHud.com also has its own music studio where local artists perform - a big undertaking for a college newspaper, obviously, but perhaps worth exploring. The old workstation/cubicle tradition endures, but needn't at a forward-thinking college paper, which ought to focus more on mobility and flexibility - meaning laptops, PDAs, point-and-shoot cameras, etc. - and being able to file photos, stories and breaking news updates remotely. At our paper, we're being told to think in terms of working for the Web site first, and the printed paper second - a mindset that has prompted some physical layout changes, including a daytime news desk whose primary purpose is to get breaking news updates up on the Web asap. Though I certainly want The Chronicle to be on the cutting edge, I'd like to see it more explicitly embrace its history, too, perhaps with a thoughtful display of old photographs, memorabilia, photos of famous alumni, my old utility bills, etc.
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