“Baseball used to be the sport where all you needed was a stick and a ball. It used to be a way out…”

February 14 Comments Off on “Baseball used to be the sport where all you needed was a stick and a ball. It used to be a way out…” Category: Feed, Tumblr

“Baseball used to be the sport where all you needed was a stick and a ball. It used to be a way out for poor kids. Now it’s a sport that increasingly freezes out kids whose parents don’t have the income to finance the travel baseball circuit.”

Andrew McCutchen

The five most important beats for a local newspaper or website

January 12 Comments Off on The five most important beats for a local newspaper or website Category: Uncategorized

Well written and well worth a read. I especially like how he proposes to restructure political coverage.Clipped from www.ojr.orgThe five most important beats for a local newspaper or website Online news start-ups must structure themselves not along traditional newsroom beat line-ups, but choose instead a new design that better connects their reporters with the community […]