Brian J. Manzullo - Latest Comments

Re: A case for the editorial use of slideshows

Tim — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:05:45 -0000

I rarely choose to view slideshows now because I know it will probably take up too much time versus the benefit I receive. A few have a "view all" option, but if they do not, I don't view them.

Re: Do you party like a journalist?

Houston Home Security — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:17:11 -0000

I'm interesting in the “golden” radio voice very much.

Re: Analyzing Patch and the need for hyperlocal news

Roger Plothow — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:25:22 -0000

"The future of news is hyperlocal and personalized. It starts with news from your immediate surroundings. And the typical United States community, from the major metropolitan suburb to the town by the rural countryside, doesn’t receive enough visibility. Small community newspapers are suffering worse than their metropolitan counterparts, if not already closed down. It’s time to bring the news to these communities."
Wow, Brian, you got this exactly backward. Newspapers in the under-50,000 category are surviving quite nicely, thank you, and have avoided many of the financial and readership nightmares faced by the metros. It may be true that weekly newspapers in very small communities are struggling, but daily papers in the 10,000-to-50,000 circulation category are faring pretty well, based on research provided to participating members by Inland Press.

Roger Plothow
Editor and Publisher
Post Register, Idaho Falls, Idaiho

Re: Goodbye, BrianManzullo.com. Hello, Project Mango.

Lauren Rabaino — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:07:13 -0000

Ok, I want to wrote a post about this: http://twitter.com/#!/laurenmi...

Re: The importance (and impact) of branding

Skepticofturds — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:48:02 -0000

where can people get the font?

Re: With LeBron James’ ESPN special, the line between sports journalism and sensationalism continues to blur

penny stocks — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:49:04 -0000

“Josh Cribbs's Tweet LeBron James pic triggers outpouring of bile and support.” The article talked about how Cribbs was in LA and so Dan Gilbert gave him tickets to Sunday's All-Star game. During the game, Cribbs tweeted “My boy @KingJames” and ...

Re: Up close and in focus: The future of photojournalism?

jimnaprstek — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:25:32 -0000

With how journalism is changing from a paper dominant source to an online source, do you believe there will still be a need for photojournalists in 5 years?

Re: What do journalists really need? Adaptability

Dave Lucas — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:49:37 -0000

We're certainly becoming a world of writers!

Re: A case for the editorial use of slideshows

David V — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:56:10 -0000

While this is all very legit, what is the case for using slideshow programs, such as Soundslides? Should companies use something like Soundslides, which, in my opinion, looks cleaner and can be easy to use (not to mention include audio), or stick to in-house slideshows that boost pageviews?

Re: Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web

Quint Randle — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:04:38 -0000

"After copy editors/designers receive the story budget for the newspaper on production days, they pull the stories from the Web when they’re ready, save them in InCopy and place them on the pages."

How do you get them from Wordpress into a format that InDesign can "read." In other words, what does "pull the stories" mean? You can't just cut and paste.

Re: Turning to the public for journalism? Well, they did it in baseball

Dr Ross — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:20:13 -0000

Brian: I love your term, "grandstand journalism". Newspapers large and small, web-news sites and broadcast media all could use some "grandstand journalists" to report on local high school, middle school and club sports. We at the National Association of Citizen Journalists believe this kind of citizen journalism will help save local newspapers that can no longer afford sports reporters. It is already happening, but more are needed. Many more. Check out our book and website at www.nacj.us.

Re: Turning to the public for journalism? Well, they did it in baseball

T Marcetti — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:35:00 -0000

A lot of journalists I know do all those things face to face with people. While more input, via social networks, could yield good results occasionally, I worry about Internet mentality ruling. For example, as I understand it, the most popular Web story the Chicago Tribune ever posted was about UFOs. Should they take reporters off the government beat to do enterprise pieces on UFOs?

Getting the community involved is almost always good, the problem still remains the Internet. For all the good things it allows us to do, it is still basically a giant bathroom wall.

Re: My quick take on TBD.com, a new interpretation of online news

Mandy Jenkins — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:38:27 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to review TBD on our launch day. Glad you like the List, The 9, Facts Machine and all the signature features we've been dying to show everyone. We hope you'll stick with us as we continue to develop - and offer your feedback as we go along.

Re: Three things I dare college students to do

Viktor Ovurmind — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:08:04 -0000

IMHO to reinvent journalism one has to go back to the roots of journalism and rekindle the personal enjoyment, courage and freedom sense of being a journalist. Without that there will be Frankenstein Journalism, deformed by fear and fed by economic circumstance that leads to more of the vicious than virtuous outcomes.

[v.o.M.]

Re: The job search is over: I’m off to the Desert

erinklema — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:18:23 -0000

Congrats, Brian! It's great to hear fellow CMU journalism alumni are doing well.

Re: The job search is over: I’m off to the Desert

greglinch — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:52 -0000

Congrats! No doubt you're gonna rock their house.

Re: Three things I dare college students to do

Brian Manzullo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:37:39 -0000

Both excellent additions.

I thought about the "switching majors" option, but I feel like I've already talked about it quite a bit (particularly in my 8 things college newsrooms need to change). Hopefully, students are thinking carefully when deciding to major in journalism! Maybe double-major?

Studying abroad is another very good dare for students. That's one thing I wish I would've done in my 5 years. Everybody I know who has done it has called it the experience of a lifetime.

Re: Three things I dare college students to do

FGFM — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:03:35 -0000

4. Switch majors.

Re: Three things I dare college students to do

Marjorie Mclellan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:23:41 -0000

Addition to the list for US journalism students -- study in another country.

Re: Michigan news media aggregating an unlikely earthquake

Brian Manzullo — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:02:24 -0000

Noted. Although I wasn't going for who had it first, but who provided links and extraneous information with their post. MLive.com linked to GR's story, the one I found (This was around 2:15 or so)

Re: Michigan news media aggregating an unlikely earthquake

David Veselenak — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:51:25 -0000

Wrong on the Mlive comment. The Saginaw News (compliments of our friend Ms. Lindsay Knake) had it online WAAAY before GR did. GR was still trying to figure out what happened by the time Saginaw had their piece up.

Re: Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web

Brian Manzullo — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:10:29 -0000

Thanks for the comments, guys. Sorry, I didn't notice I never responded until now!

I would agree with Neil's concerns about editing integrity. One thing we've noticed in our feedback survey on cm-life.com the past semester is that readers were consistently asking for better proofreading. With all the talk about revamping newsrooms, we can't forget the core part of journalism, which is fact-checking and accuracy in spelling/grammar. No matter what system is implemented, great attention to editing should still play a role.

Re: Why an ideal online comments section should not require personal identification

JGoldsborough — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:34:23 -0000

Wow, lot to digest here. I'll have to go back and read the #journchat transcript too. Whether or not to allow anonymous comments was a huge debate when I managed the employee social network at Sprint from 2007-2009. We decided against anonymity. Here's why:

1. We wanted employees to own their comments. We believed allowing anonymity encouraged less constructive, more vindictive commenting.

2. So issues could be addressed. When someone comments with a valuable question or worthwhile issues, it's much harder to address it or help them out if the post comes from anonymous.

@Erik I have had a similar experience to yours, that forums where people can't comment anonymously "have a lot more civility and a lot fewer people who just indiscriminately kvetch about everything they see." The conversation is definitely more valuable and constructive IMO.

But @Brian, here's another reason I'm having some trouble with your argument for anonymity. You say, "In a perfect world, everybody would comment with their true identities and everybody would know each others specific place in a community." Well, in a perfect world, newspapers or media outlets would have the resources to "regularly monitor your comments, approve them before they appear and engage with your active audience." But with newspapers cutting staff and resources left and right, do these orgs really have the time and people to monitor effectively? Or do they let this duty slip through the cracks because they already have 70 other things going on?

Anonymity makes it too easy for the conversation to fall through the cracks in a number of ways. Not to mention that anonymous commenting keeps other users from experiencing on of the most important benefits that should come from commenting in online forums -- networking and knowing the people you're conversing with and learning from.

@jgoldsborough

Re: Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web

Alex Vera — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:10:21 -0000

This article definitely helped. We are looking into workflow and making it easier to get stories online after production time. I'm waiting for editFlow to go through further testing before applying the plug-in to our site. Thanks, Alex

Re: Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web

lorenpaulsson — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:59:10 -0000

We're about to launch something like this for our organization's small magazine.