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DFM Workshop Teaches Practical Engagement Techniques
Ivan Lajara, engagement editor for Digital First Media’s East Region, sent us this picture of Steve Buttry’s video presentation at last week’s workshop. Last week, about 20 Digital First engagement...
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Little Outliner, Big Vision: Chat with Web Pioneer Dave Winer
Dave Winer will join us for a Thunderdome live chat at 2:00 pm ET on April 10.On next week’s Thunderdome live chat, we’ll be talking with Dave Winer, a true pioneer of the web. His blog,...
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San Bernardino Sun Donates Archives to County
Whether it’s community newsrooms or community engagement, Digital First Media newspapers have long made it a priority to deepen bonds with the communities they serve. The San Bernardino County Sun, for...
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DFM Wins 27 Local Media Editorial Awards
Digital First Media newspapers were recognized with 27 awards in this year’s Local Media Associated Editorial Contest. Categories ranged from Best Investigative Reporting to Best Column Writing to Best...
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Denver Post Wins Pulitzer for Fourth Consecutive Year
On Monday, the Denver Post was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the July 20, 2012, shooting at the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora, Colo. The Pulitzer...
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Breaking News Big in February DFMies: Manhunt, Fire, Ruptured Water Main
The February DFMie winners include three big breaking news stories: About 80 Los Angeles News Group staffers worked on the DFMie-winning coverage of the manhunt and eventual death of former police...
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Five Ways You Can Use DocumentCloud for Journalism
In our recent live chat with Ted Han and Jaimi Dowdell, data editor Tom Meagher and I learned a bunch we didn’t know about DocumentCloud, a web app that makes it easy for journalists to analyze,...
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Gaming the News
Why just read the news when you can play it instead? A couple weeks ago, members of Thunderdome’s data team headed to the Global Editors Network Editors’ Lab at the New York Times to wrestle with how...
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Twitter Training at APSE Meeting for Aspiring College Sports Journalists
On Monday, May 6, Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., hosted an APSE Northeast Regional Meeting attended by sports editors, sports writers, administrators and dozens of Marist students. Among the...
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On the Ground in York, PA: Thunderdome User Research
Within the Digital First Media family, Thunderdome is a bit of an anomaly. We’re not a local newsroom and don’t publish a print edition. We don’t even have a web presence of our own. But what we share...
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Teamwork Marks March DFMie Winners
Teamwork surfaced as a theme of March’s DFMie awards, the monthly honors bestowed to journalists and newsrooms producing exceptional work at Digital First Media. Five of the March winners were staff...
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Thunderdome Welcomes Daniel Lewis as Newest Producer
I’m a country boy at heart. I’d rather be figuring out how to reel in a fish than how to navigate from lower Manhattan to JFK. I was raised in a place where I learned to appreciate the surrounding...
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Affordable & Understandable: Explaining Obamacare
Click to view slideshow. This week, a team from all departments within Thunderdome spent the day at an offsite brainstorming session. The question was simple: how might we inform our readers how they...
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Connections and Convergence: Lessons from Chapel Hill
During my four years at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, I spent almost every waking moment at The Daily Tar Heel, the school’s independent student newspaper. In that time, I learned...
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Thunderdome Intern Trades Happy Valley for Hudson
My name is Julia Kern, and it’s a pleasure to be introducing myself as one of two summer interns at Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome. As a rising senior at Penn State majoring in print...
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Thunderdome Welcomes Business Channel Manager
I started my journalism career as an intern at a Digital First Media property – The Salt Lake Tribune – and that’s part of why I wanted to join Thunderdome. My experience in Salt Lake City prepared me...
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A Proper Goodbye to Everyone’s Favorite Paper Company
More than a few of us were sad to see “The Office” come to an end last month after an impressive nine year run on NBC. It was a quirky show about a quirky paper company, and we knew that we wanted to...
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Making “The Many Faces of Superman”
See it here: The Many Faces of Superman Ever since we saw the first trailer trickle out earlier this year, we knew “Man Of Steel” was poised to become one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters. Our...
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Your chance to attend ONA13: Digital First Represents
UPDATE: The entry deadline has been extended to July 8, 5 p.m. ET. So you decided you want to go to ONA13. Especially after you saw all your journalist friends on Twitter tweeting about it last year....
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Kicking Off DFM’s Tout Bout
Get your Touts ready because today we kick off the inaugural DFM Tout Bout, a monthly contest for Digital First staffers to nominate and ultimately choose the most creative, interesting or newsworthy...
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