Kat Powers's Page

Is there someone at a newspaper website using regular-folk driven photo sites to help coverage of his/her community? It's festival season coming up, and I'd love to figure how how to showcase the best of Flickr shot in my town, but I can't figure our where to start. Yes, my paper is on Flickr, but that's as far as I have gotten.

I had my first week where more people told me they had me on RSS feed than people told me they buy or subscribe to my paper.

I'm both an optimist and impatient, so the whining about how it all sucks and newspapers are gonna die isn't sitting with me. So I'm only going to share successes. Today, my reporter came back from an event with an astounding video. Instead of focusing on the TV news angle of the St. Patrick's Day roadrace, instead of focusing in production, or what he had to get for the print edition, or any host of things that could have been bad, he interviewed people he could grab on the silly angle: What… Continue

I work for a website and its companion weekly newspaper. Which is to say, I was a weekly journalist until all this web stuff came along and I dived in with the rest of you folks.

That dive was so recent, I'm still carrying around business cards that still don't have my newspaper website on them.

Anyway, I've had a number of readers notice my attention has shifted over toward the web. We have instant feedback on the web. We stir up enough attention, we have other media folks ta… Continue

If you're over 35, you may have been taught headline writing styles that are unique to newspapers.

I get that headlines have to be webby, but is there a stylebook out there for us?

If I have a quote in a headline, am I still using single quotes? Or is that a question that dates back to hot type?