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Cross-team collaboration earns Kitchen Pop another win
The team behind Kitchen Pop: Four ways to make holiday magic with your microwave won our coveted “cross-team collaboration” award this week, becoming the first to win that contest in the process. The...
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Expansive Winter Olympics coverage for Digital First Media websites
Olympic subchannels provide comprehensive coverage of alpine skiing, biathlon, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, Nordic sports, sled sports, snowboarding and speedskating. Cue the...
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December DFMies show strong sports coverage, engagement
Sports and community engagement were strong themes among December’s DFMies and ToutBout winners. Strong breaking news coverage and enterprise reporting also delivered multiple winners. The sports and...
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3 sports coverage tips from December’s DFMie winners
In the first of a four-part series on December’s DFMie winners, we take a closer look at the winning sports entries from across Digital First Media. The DFMie winners here include Sean Bowley of...
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Here’s what the news industry has to say about Project Unbolt
The following post was originally published on Steve Buttry’s blog. Since last week’s announcement of Project Unbolt, various news-industry blogs have taken note: Sam Kirkland of Poynter interviewed me...
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The Super Bowl ad factory wins Thunderdome’s web-packaging contest
Taking home the win for this week’s “web-packaging” contest is Take a look inside the Super Bowl ad factory. It was created by the team of: Courtney Wells, Jeremy Binckes, Angela Carter, Vaughn Hagerty...
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Engagement lessons from these two December DFMies
In the second of a four-part series on December’s DFMie winners, we take a closer look at the winning engagement entries from across Digital First Media. The DFMie winners here include two team wins;...
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DFMie winners dish advice for breaking news coverage and Tout
In the third of a four-part series on December’s DFMie winners, we take a closer look at the winning breaking news entries. The DFMie winners here include the Monterey Herald for its coverage of a fire...
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Behind the DFMie: Journalists explain their winning enterprise works
In the fourth of our four-part series on December’s DFMie winners, we take a closer look at the winning enterprise entries. The DFMie winners here include Noel Lyn Smith of the Daily Times in...
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Video: RJI Futures Lab checks in on Thunderdome progress
The Reynolds Journalism Institute keeps regular tabs on innovations in journalism with their weekly Futures Lab feature. The lab recently checked in with our own Robyn Tomlin and graphics editor...
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Project Unbolt question: How do you measure success in culture change?
One of our most important challenges in changing Digital First newsrooms will be measuring success. As I explained last month, Project Unbolt involves changing the culture and workflow of our company’s...
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MVP award for the guy who made Thunderdome’s work easier
Recognition for this month’s Thunderdome MVP has been a long time coming. Let’s hear it for our technology strategist, Davis Shaver. Davis spent a large part of 2013 developing Thunderdome’s in-house...
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The story of how we slow jammed Jimmy Fallon
This is the story of two videos: the one that was supposed to happen, and the one that did. “Head southwest on Saugerties Manor toward Highway 32 north New York 212 West New York 32 North route 32...
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Nancy March starts unbolting the Pottstown Mercury
The point of Project Unbolt is not to wrench the four pilot newsrooms free from print culture and workflow. We want to unbolt all our newsrooms from print. We decided to concentrate our attention...
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Our headline of the month favors a question over cow farts
From cow farts to an unusual application for underwear, we had some highly clickable contenders in this month’s headline contest. But in the end, our headline judges sided with the only one that posed...
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Should we edit digital products with the same rigor as print?
Mike Crist, a Digital First Media colleague at the Delaware County Daily Times, asked recently about the importance of editing as newsrooms change: @stevebuttry dumb question. We’re still expected to...
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Welcome Daniel Bachhuber to our operations team
We are thrilled to announce that Daniel Bachhuber has joined Thunderdome’s operations team as senior developer. In this new role, Daniel will anchor our development team, which is also looking to add a...
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Digital First staff tweets from #NICAR14
Dispatches from Digital First Media staff in attendance at this year’s NICAR 14 conference. Follow along here, or subscribe to this Twitter list, whichever you prefer.
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Q&A: Thunderdome senior data reporter MaryJo Webster
MaryJo Webster Award-winning journalist MaryJo Webster recently joined Thunderdome’s data team as our new senior data reporter, bringing with her years of experience in analytical and investigative...
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Thunderdome’s 24/7 Olympics desk earns the cross-team gold
The Olympic sport of biathlon combines the skills of cross-country skiing with rifle shooting. Thus, relatively speaking, it didn’t seem quite so bizarre when we decided to combine a features producer,...
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