October 5, 2009

Q-What do you call the obituary pages of the newspaper?

A- subscriber countdown

That was a joke tweeted live during the Online News Association convention this past weekend in San Francisco. Great time.

One small note- I saw this guy David LaFontaine talk at ONA, he has a nice recurring summary of news about the state of the industry on his blog like this.

I may actually download this mp3 of Clay Shirky in a talk on accountability journalism in the age of newspaper's steady decline

October 1, 2009

Obama video

Some breaking news video I shot election night 2008:



I had caught a cold that day, after hanging out at several voting stations, a victory party for the newly elected mayor of Richmond, and this late-breaking news. Thousands of college students spontaneously took to the streets after Barack Obama won the election. There was such energy in the crowd, I've never seen anything like it. Had to shot/edit this one fast to cap off a 13 or 14 hour day.