Hey all. I’m operating Muncie Free Press here in the Midwest. Previous to this, I worked at the local Gannett paper, The Star Press. I was downsized in May, spent two months putting a site together and launched on July 4 of this year. It’s going ok so far.
We’re working on phase two currently - our weekly print product.
I am looking forward to talking to you guys and sharing any information I have that might help you out, and also reading up on what everyone else has to say.
Hi! I run IndianOnlineJournalism—reincarnated recently as a blog. I’m interested in learning about ways to get people/citizens involved in the news process.
I currently work for a fortnightly magazine in Chennai, India, Frontline. I also moderate a forum on online journalism in India.
That’s it I guess.
Cheers!
I am excited about blogs. I live in Chicago on the Westside. I started a community newspaper, the North Lawndale Community News in 1999 with the help of family, community people and a grant from two organizations, the North Lawndale Small Grants Initiative and the Steans Family foundation. In 2001, we added a Website and in 2005 we started a weblog with the help of a grant from J-Lab.
I am a grandfather. I love God, family and community. Our weblog is found on our website at
http://www.nlcn.org. I am interested in using technology to help in the development of our community. Currently it is the 6th poorest out of 77 in the city of Chicago. It is also experiencing gentrification at an excellerated rate.
I am glad to be part of this J-Learning network. Thanks for having me.
Full name is John McCreery. My wife Ruth and I are co-owners of The Word Works, Ltd., a small but very, very good translation and copywriting company based in Yokohama Japan, where we have lived for going on 26 years. For 13 of those years, I worked as a copywriter and creative director for Hakuhodo Inc., Japan’s second largest advertising agency, which continues to be The Word Works’ single largest client. On my side of the business, we specialize in working with Japanese creative and marketing teams doing pitches to multinational corporations. If they win, we get a continuing stream of business. I call the model chasing comets.
Other things you might want to know: I am a Ph.D. in social anthropology (Cornell, 1973), wrote my dissertation on The Symbolism of Popular Taoist Magic after two years of fieldwork in central Taiwan. In 2000, Curzon Press (UK) and U. of Hawaii Press (US) published my first book, Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. I am also a Democratic Party activist, having served as Secretary and Chair of Democrats Abroad Japan and International Vice Chair of Democrats Abroad worldwide. Ruth and I have one daughter, Kate, of whom we are inordinately proud. She grew up in Japan bicultural and bilingual, graduated from Yokohama International School and, when we urged her to go to college in the States and do something challenging secured an appointment to the US Naval Academy. She is currently a Navy flight instructor, married to a Marine Corps jet fighter jock and expecting our first grandchild.
Hi!!! Aino Akinome here and I’m just new here in this site… I really like to be here and have some talk with you people… Have a good day to all of you… Btw, I’m form Okinawa, Japan… And I’m living now in Burlington, Conn… because of my job…
hi im becky im an assistant editor at a local nj newspaper. ive always loved to write and im really into photography and im pretty much a dreamer im always coming up with new business ideas that sound really good but i never quite know how to start them off so i found this site and here i am!
Hello, I am John, a 38 year old husband, father, veteran and now student from Overland, Missouri.
Last year I started a blog the Overland Examiner as an attempt to inject some facts into the political turmoil my community has been going though. I saw it as a simple service for the residents of the city. I was looking these things up for my own benefit anyway, so why not post them for others to see?
Before this started, if someone told me I would love journalism I’d have laughed. However, this project lit some sort of fire under me. I started taking journalism classes, invested in a better video camera, and struggled to figure out how to make a blogger site do what I wanted it to.
Now I want to do much more with Community and Citizen Journalism. I want to expand my project from the politically focused blog, into a multi-page news site covering Overland, Missouri in general. I opened a hosting account, and have started looking into various software platforms. However, I’m lost (but still trying). Perhaps if I better understood how to work with the hosting control panel, or if I better understood Wordpress I’d be better off. Trying to learn both at the same time is.....well.....trying.
I stumbled across this site this morning and I’m hoping this will be a place where I can learn about journalism and how to make it work for you online.
I’m a sports blogger/journalist from New Zealand. I run my own blog at www.sportsafterdark.net and regularly submit my articles to Sportingo and Newsvine. As a result of these I’ve had three articles published on the New Zealand Rugby Union’s official site. Love writing, love sports so I figured why not blog about sports? Now if only I could get someone to pay me for it…
Greetings. I’m Rick Vecchio, a freelance journalist based in Peru, where I have lived and worked for the last 11 years. I’m a former AP correspondent who is currently involved in the startup of a Web publication and related blog site and I have much to learn in a short amount of time.
