Category Archives: journalism

Testing out Google

By Jared | Published: February 9, 2008
Apparently Google Documents is becoming more impressive than it already is. Forms will add a new way for connectivity and reader responses. This new feature reinforces my idea that Google will eventually take over the Internet. All they really need to do is set up an ISP and a Web browser. That might put a [...]
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Tea bag leaves office steamed

By Jared | Published: February 8, 2008
Today in my Writing for the Information Age class (Web Journalism) we did another exercise where we take a story in print and re-write it for the Web. The following is compiled from some staff reports at The Express-Times. A sugar-packet sized bag containing a brown substance brewed suspicion that lead to an office building [...]
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Going the distance with travel stories

By Jared | Published: February 7, 2008
I’ve come into a bunch of travel pieces written for a Feature Writing class and since they fit my criteria for publication (decent writing and ripe for packaging) we’re going to probably run one per issue of both the print version of The Commuter as well as our Web publication. Our first piece, a travel [...]
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