If my e-mail box was in paper form, it would probably look like that picture most of the time. Digging into my work archives alone, I’ve received 27,185 e-mails since the beginning of the year. I’ve sent 6,541. I normally have a few hundred sitting in my inbox on any given day. I’m not happy [...]
Career
Last Living Survivor of the RMS Titanic
I had the privilege of producing an award-winning radio interview with Millvina Dean, the last living survivor of the RMS Titanic. The interview aired on the Phillips & Company Morning Show on KYKY-FM in 1997. At the time of the interview, about seven survivors were still alive. In the interview, Dean explained how she was [...]
Guy Phillips Celebrates 30 Years
Guy Phillips, morning radio host at Y98FM in St. Louis, is a legend. His bio on Y98.com doesn’t do him justice, and why there’s not a lengthy Wikipedia article on him is beyond me. Maybe I should create one. After 30 years at the same seat on the same show on the same station…it’s obvious his [...]
Using Twitter in the Newsroom
WUSA 9 in Washington, DC started the new year offering weekly training seminars for everyone on staff called 9 University. Each week, there are courses ranging from SharePoint and Google Docs to writing better headlines and streaming Mogulus. Twitter was taught as a two-part series: how it works, and how to use it in a [...]
Moving old blogs
So I’m out sick today, and the only thing I can really do is check e-mail and drink lots of fluids. Lindsey spent all last week with the flu, and even though I received a flu shot, I still got a bit of it today. I’m hoping it’s only a one-day illness. I’m taking this [...]
Stop Doing Things You Hate
From time to time I come across a good motivational speaker through YouTube, and today was no exception. I’ve never heard of Gary Vaynerchuk before, but found this link through a friend of a Twitter account and thought I’d give it a try. Although it sounds very selfish to always think to do things that [...]
Take me out to the Nats game
Close to the end of work today, my boss Allan asks if I’m interested in taking his seat at the Washington Nationals baseball game tonight. I would be sitting next to Gannett’s VP of Labor Relations. I had not been to a ballgame yet since we’ve been to DC, so I asked Lindsey to head [...]
Online News Association ’08 Conference
Within my first two weeks at my new job, I was asked to be a representative for all of Gannett’s broadcast stations in the Online News Association’s 9th Annual Conference and Awards Banquet job fair at the Capitol Hilton in downtown DC (t). I was at first a little hesitant because the job fair fell [...]
Visiting Gannett’s Corporate Offices
My boss Allan has been planning my visit to Gannett’s corporate headquarters since I started working at WUSA9. He wanted to make sure I spent time with Kerry Oslund, VP of Digital Media, Rob Mennie, VP/Senior News Executive for Gannett, and Dave Lougee, President of Gannett’s Broadcast Division. So today was the big day to [...]
Leaving FOX 2
This will be my last blog and the hardest one to write, because I have announced my resignation as Senior Web Producer for FOX 2. I’ve spent nine years at the station, dating back to 1999 when we launched fox2ktvi.com. The last two years have been the most rewarding. I’ve enjoyed sharing my life with you. [...]
Lindenwood Students at FOX 2
For 12 short days, we are welcoming five bright young students from Lindenwood University’s St. Charles campus to learn about media convergence. Media convergence is the melding together of different media (such as in this case, television and the Internet). Journalism Program Manager Julie Beard and her students are at the station each weekday morning [...]
Twitter and myFOXstl
myFOXstl.com and Twitter are working together to bring the latest news updates to you! We will be updating Twitter.com with all of our top St. Louis news and weather stories as they are relevant to the Twitters 24 hours a day. This is just another way of keeping the community informed as news develops. What [...]
Alert! Alert! Morning Radio
Did anyone hear the EAS (Emergency Alert System) take over the radio airwaves Tuesday morning? I have not listened to local morning radio in a while (hooked on Sirius Satellite Radio), but of all days, TODAY was the day I decided to hear what’s been going on with Guy Phillips, Craig Cornett, and other morning [...]
The old FOX 2 News set
Ever wonder what happened to the old FOX 2 News set? The news set you see now was installed back in April, and the old one was donated to SIU Carbdondale. They are now using it for their student-run news program that airs at 5:00 p.m. on WSIU Channel 8 (if you’re ever in Southern [...]