More Clips and Miscellanea
Training
A big part of my position as production editor at the Journal Sentinel was training other journalists in best practices in Web design and production. Here are a few of the cheat-sheets and guides I wrote up.
- Web Headlines: Writing headlines for SEO and Web usability
- HTML: The basics of HTML at a glance
- Links: Style and etiquette for adding links in stories
Social Media
I created and — for a long time — helped update the Journal Sentinel’s flagship Facebook account. I also created about a half-dozen automated Twitter accounts (examples here and here) and helped build our human-fed @journalsentinel account.
I also spent a fair amount of time as production editor and product manager making sure content was optimized for social media, including elements such as headline length, thunmbnail size and meta tagging.
Photos
My photos have been published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Rotarian, the Jamaica Plain (Mass.) Gazette and Media Ethics magazine. See photo captions for more publication info.
Audio
In my travels, I spent about five years working in student radio as a DJ and newscaster and picked up some basic — very basic — audio editing skills along the way.
JSOnline.com: Mark Attanasio on the Brewers
(Audio was collected by the reporter and edited by me)
WERS (Emerson College) Voters’ rights (aired on “UR Here,” a public affairs show)
WERS (Emerson College) News update (aired Nov. 16, 2004)
Odds and Ends
- In addition to my gig at the Journal Sentinel, I was also a long-time webmaster for the Milwaukee News Guild.
- As part of a masters practicum, I helped create The Oyster, which we envisioned as an online alt-weekly. That project lives on as The Sly Oyster, which is run by James Furbush, one of my Oyster co-founders.
- Previous versions of this profile site can be found here and here. Both of those were coded (mostly) by hand.