Transworld journalism

This past Friday, 2007.08.24, the staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer said goodbye to Lou Yi, a journalist from Beijing, China. She reports for Caijing Magazine, the second most read magazine publication in China, after Chinese Vogue. While in the U.S. on a 5 month fellowship, she spent time working with different desks at the paper, [...]

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Hyper-Local

I was off shooting a fall fashion feature for The Inquirer last week when Rob Curley of The Washington Post stopped by the office for a reportedly 6 hour seminar on how he is saving newspapers. It is a real shame I missed it (I have ideas for my own take on a hyper-local news [...]

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Revitalizing newspapers: Online video

Since April, I have been working as part of a Drexel University co-op on The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Online Desk. When I was hired, part of the job description stated that I would be involved in developing online video, and further, assisting to develop an online multimedia content strategy. By my first day, the paper’s site [...]

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The new online life of newspapers

For the past 4 months, I have been interning at The Philadelphia Inquirer, working on the Online Desk. My duties have included updating pages on http://www.Philly.com, creating and maintaing pages for special, multi-part features, editing and integrating online content into article and feature pages, an producing original content. During my time in the newsroom, if [...]

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Newspapers, meet Facebook.

I am currently interning at The Philadelphia Inquirer, doing a multitude of duties. On June 28, 2007, the Online Department had a staff meeting, during which one topic included the role of the social networking website http://www.facebook.com as a tool for increasing online newspaper readership and exposure. After the meeting I wrote this memo:
We talked [...]

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