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Brianne Pruitt 28, Female
Wenatchee
United States

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Brianne Pruitt commented on the blog post Union-Bulletin blogs - take 2 Nov 13

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Wenatchee World
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Editor
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Newspaper bloggers — how do you promote?

What is your newspaper/news organization doing to promote staff bloggers? Excerpting in print, adding to bylines, house ads, etc.? We've begun some staff blogs, but aren't really sure how to promote them. They aren't doing very well, but we also haven't promoted them — at all. So, what do you do? Does it work? How have you built a community around your blog? Is anyone else out there struggling? Also, what kind of page views are you getting, compared to rest of Web site, or circulation, or wha… Continue

Posted on July 15, 2008 at 1:10pm — 5 Comments

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Newspaper staff bloggers + time management

What is your newspaper's policy on staff blogging? Are staff bloggers compensated? How about time management? Do you have to work it into your current schedule, or do you get a break on other work to make time for blogging? How about beat blogging vs. personal-interest blogs? Can you tell we're having time-management issues with our staff bloggers!?! Anyway, let me know how your paper does it, so I can get an idea of how to work this out. Thanks!

Posted on July 7, 2008 at 2:57pm — 12 Comments

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Posting raw copy to the Web

We are currently in a hot debate about posting copy to the web without any editing. We're not talking full stories, we're not talking on a daily basis, we're talking every so often, when there's breaking news, posting up a short on it right away, while someone edits the full story, when there's only one reporter in the newsroom. We're an afternoon paper, so at night there are very few people around. We do schedule at least two folks in the newsroom most nights, but sometimes (like during vacat… Continue

Posted on July 3, 2008 at 12:48pm — 9 Comments

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At 3:00pm on April 17, 2008, Kat Stevens said…
Congratulations again on the job! I can't wait to start working with you on all sorts of great web projects!
At 8:50am on April 7, 2008, Kat Stevens said…
You're back! I hope you're feeling better. What's new?
At 11:37am on March 12, 2008, Kat Stevens said…
Great now I must keep track of this one too! Good place to chat about "job related" stuff anyway!
At 8:23am on February 29, 2008, Rochelle Feil said…
Yippee! Now I have another online profile for people to stalk me with!
At 7:39am on February 28, 2008, Gary Jasinek said…
Cool! Now we can communicate via some server in Albania, instead of walking across the room....
 
 

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