February 2012
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Bicyclist in Seattle? Check out this @seattletimes...
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AAJA Media Advisory on Jeremy Lin News Coverage
Feb. 22, 2012 As NBA player Jeremy Lin’s prowess on the court continues to attract international attention and grab headlines, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) would like to remind media outlets about relevance and context regarding coverage of race. In the past weeks, as more news outlets report on Lin, his game and his...
What he said. RT @seoulbrother on profitable news →
seoulbrother:
The problem is that journalists don’t know shit about business. Culturally, they don’t want to. I often hear from journalists who are downright hostile to corporations and even capitalism not because they’re commies but because they believe they’re above it all (there is the root, I believe, of much of their cynicism about Google and other large technology companies). - Jeff...
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Tips, links from social media #IN-NW session w...
Thank you to everyone who came to our session on “The media on social media” at IN-NW, a social media conference organized by the Seattle Chamber. In a career first, I have now spoken at a conference that Sir Mix-A-Lot also presented at.
Here are the tips and links from my remarks:
Use Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to manage Twitter.
Facebook is a better place to start discussions and...
Read of the day in @seattletimes: Tribute to... →
January 2012
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Can't stop laughing this morning over this one.... →
How a WSJ digital news editor gets the news, via... →
tiffanycampbell:
I clicked on 90% of the links in here - read this for a look at how to voraciously consume news:
newsme:
(This post is part of News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.” In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to…
Links from #UW #NewsLab session today on Speed...
Here are links from my session “Speed writing for Multiple Platforms” for the University of Washington News Lab session taught by Karen Rathe on Jan. 24, 2012. It’s a class full of students writing for community newspapers and news blogs. Thank you for your great questions! Feel free to get in touch with me at 206-464-2958 or schan [at] seattletimes.com if you have more.
If you want to meet...
realcleverscience asked: Hi Sharon, I firstly wanted to thank you for speaking to our class today. Very informative and helpful. On a completely unrelated note, I was hoping to ask your opinion on quantum computers, seeing how you specialize in tech and I haven't heard much about it lately - and what I do hear feels too much like marketing! Lastly, do you have a science/tech specific blog? Thanks again! - Ari
Talking to UW seminar about science journalism....
I am at the UW talking to a seminar of graduate science students and we’re talking about advice for how to work with media. Advice?
November 2011
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Students: Apply by Tues for @SeattleTimes paid...
Apply now for paid summer internships at The Seattle Times! We have openings for an online producer, general assignment reporting, photo, graphics and copy editing interns.
The deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 15. I would be happy to answer questions and take recommendations for talented applicants. Diversity is a top priority in our digital and print newsroom at schan@seattletimes.com or...
October 2011
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September 2011
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Best video I've ever seen from a newspaper. The...
This is most definitely the best video I’ve ever seen produced by a newspaper website. It’s a trailer video for The Seattle Times’ special report on the Elwha River, one of the world’s biggest nature restoration projects going on now with the removal of two giant dams. Video is by Genevieve Alvarez and Steve Ringman; story is by Lynda Mapes.
More livestock coverage: @seattletimes video of...
Kids try to hang on to sheep for 6 seconds. Mutton bustin’ video from The Seattle Times
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Best 9/11 @seattletimes piece: Letters to a mosque...
The is my favorite piece in The Seattle Times today commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11: A video about how our community gathered around the Idriss Mosque when it was targeted by gasoline attacks after 9/11. By our video producer Danny Gawlowski.
My second favorite: This provocative essay by author Jess Walter on promises made and forgotten after 9/11.
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THIS is the best 9/11 story yet from WaPo: A... →
doristruong:
This is amazing. Just read.
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WatchPoynter tumbled about Friday’s concert live cast from The Seattle Times’ old press room. Kudos to our video producer Danny @Gawlowski!
poynterinstitute:
The Seattle Times has been featuring live webcasts of performances by local musicians, usually in timing with local music festivals. Last week, music blogger Andrew Matson had lined up two artists to perform — Truckasauras and...
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Music problem: People who own grand pianos but...
Or worse, people who own player grand pianos and don’t play.
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franciscarey:
musicproblems
THIS. You want to talk about the “special understanding” of music musicians have that non-musicians don’t? One of my biggest professional pet-peeves plays out much like this every time:
Arrive at mansion to play cocktail piano for an assemblage of drunk rich people.
Strut over to...
The best story I have read yet remembering 9/11...
From The New York Times: DEALBOOK: The Survivor Who Saw the Future for Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick, one of the few at Cantor Fitzgerald to survive the Sept. 11 attacks, has rebuilt his company, and then some. http://nyti.ms/ndPnSb
August 2011
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UNITY urges MediaNews to keep diversity a priority...
Aug. 26, 2011 — UNITY: Journalists of Color urges MediaNews to keep diversity a top priority as the company downsizes from 11 newspapers to two in California.
We understand that news organizations must make changes to survive as businesses. We also believe that retaining and growing diversity in news coverage and newsrooms are imperative to business sustainability and future success.
These...
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I like how @latimes is holding networks...
latimes:
Number of women working in TV falls: There are fewer women in front and behind the camera.
Photo: Tina Fey, left, and Oprah Winfrey on an episode of NBC’s “30 Rock.” Credit: Nicole Rivelli / NBC
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“There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find...”
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Debussy (via leadingtone)
A flying remote-controlled shark. Someone is...
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UNITY in Las Vegas! Save the date for Aug. 1-4,...
aajaford:
It’s not too early to start thinking about the UNITY Journalists of Color Convention in Las Vegas next year! Save the date for Aug. 1-4, 2012. This will be the place to find a job in journalism, get the most innovative training in journalism and connect with your fellow Asian American, Hispanic and Native American journalists. Come find us at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention...
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Why #AAJA matters - a cool thank you to Ford... →
aajaford:
Though I’ve been a journalist for nearly half my life, this is my first year joining AAJA and my first convention. I wished I’d found my way to you sooner.
The incredible support, friendship, mentoring and fellowship I discovered here at my first AAJA convention felt like a homecoming of sorts….
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Great analysis of what LA Times is doing right to... →
gilasakawa:
The inevitable evolution of a web-first philosophy to news is finally taking hold, and all the blogging and social media are helping the LAT’s metrics rise above other, more traditional news websites. There’s a lot to learn here.
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Takeaways from a great #AAJA panel on Tech Trends...
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Links from #AAJA Detroit 2011 session “Speed...
Here are links from my session “Speed writing for Multiple Platforms” at the Asian American Journalists Association’s National Convention in Detroit on Aug. 11, 2011. Thom Fladung, managing editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Maggie Leung, supervising news editor for CNN and I talked on a Digital Know How panel. Thank you to everyone for coming to our session and to the convention. Feel free...
July 2011
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A personal Sunday revelation: Brahms cello piano...
A Sunday revelation at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s concert at Benaroya: Brahms’ Op. 114 trio that combines cello, clarinet and piano.
Here is video of the Oscine Trio performing the 2nd movement.
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Color analysis of Beethoven's Archduke piano trio....
I worked on this with my piano trio, Press Play, three years ago. It was a butt kicker, to paraphrase Microsoft COO Kevin Turner. We’ve downgraded to Op. 1, No. 1.
You can buy Seattle Chamber Music Society tickets here.
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#Chase online banking shutting down for the whole...
Chase needs to move to the cloud. NOW. On premise or public. Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, whatever.
If you are a competing bank with an online system that is elastic, redundant and secure — meaning you do not shut down for 48 hours to do maintenance or for three hours every Sunday morning — I’m interested in moving my business to your bank.
Here’s the email I received...
Admiring these 4.5" spiked heels from Nordstrom.... →
June 2011
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How to Help Out-of-Work Journalists. Via #AAJA... →
Here is how you can help the 700 journalists who will be laid off at Gannett.
doristruong:
About 700 journalists from Gannett’s newspaper division are about to need new employment. I’m rounding up some journalism job leads to help them land on their feet.
Please send me other postings that come your way. (Thanks — so far — to NAHJ’s Russ Contreras and AAJA’s Cheryl Tan.)
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#ASNE Leadership in Diversity Summit, Day 1 summed...
Learning a lot reading the tweets streaming out of ASNE’s Diversity Summit in Florida this week. There are some great tips for job searching in journalism and recruiting. Doris has a Storify that sums up the first day. The summit continues Wednesday. To read along with me, follow the #ASNE hashtag.
doristruong: